Deksor wrote:Yes I will 😉
This laptop might be the best pentium laptop I can put my hands on. It's been laying around for 1 or 2 years now. I've got in total 6 or 7 pentium laptops and none of them are good enough to me. Why ? their screen just sucks (I hate CSTN 🙁 ). This one is in poor physical shape (the rubbery-thing is peeling off. Though the shell isn't broken at least. I think I can fix this, I'll explain this later ^^) but it works and this has to be the computer with the cheapest TN screen available
My second "almost good" laptop I have is my Toshiba 210CDS. Unfortunately, like I said, the screen is bad and it has no L2 cache while this IBM might have some (not quite sure about that)
It really is a shame that the number of working STN P1 laptops outnumber those with TFT screens (to this day and even back then AFAIK), but then again there's no such thing as a perfect 90s laptop because in my experience they usually either had a suckish screen, basic (or even no) sound, terrible build quality, or were just proprietary in ways that they shouldn't be.
Personally I wouldn't mind getting a replacement TFT screen for my Toshiba Satellite 315CDS laptop, but due to its' age it can be hard to find through specific searches, yet the inner workings of the screen panel look standard enough to the point where I might be able to drop in a screen from a regular old 12.1" laptop. This is just an idea on my bucket list so it can wait, after all I mainly use desktops for older applications and this laptop is mainly for shareware testing and floppy imaging so no big deal.