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First post, by Deksor

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I've got an IBM thinkpad 760EL that works, but that's in terrible shape (the rubbery-thingy on the plastic ils falling appart) and the screen is busted. I've seen several screens available on ebay and on the internet for quite cheap ... but all of the cheap ones are in the US and I'm in europe. Are there selers based in europe that could sell one of these for not too much ?

BTW the part number of the screen is "46H3600"

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Reply 1 of 10, by sketchus

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There's one in the UK:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IBM-46H3600-THINKPA … HkAAOSw4CFYubG8

Guessing you've probably seen that. It's going to be hard to get much cheaper though.

It might be worth trying Amibay.

EDIT

It seems that LCD might go by another model number too. Try looking for this:

LM121SS1T53

Reply 3 of 10, by sketchus

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Just be a little bit careful, I think that model of laptop has two different sizes 12.1 and 11.3.

But glad to be of help 😀

Reply 4 of 10, by Deksor

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I've read that the 12.1" one is the active matrix screen while the 11.3" one is the passive matrix screen . The bottom part of my screen is definitely not a passive matrix screen so I shouldn't have any issues with that ^^

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Reply 5 of 10, by sketchus

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Great! Update with how it goes if you don't mind, I changed a laptop screen recently and it's not the easiest thing to do. And mine was from 2008 so I've no idea what a 95 era one would be like.

Reply 6 of 10, by Deksor

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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)

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Reply 7 of 10, by ODwilly

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The 760 is perfect for Doom! The ESS chip sounds great and the Trident video chip they used actually works perfect for Doom and Outlawd

Main pc: Asus ROG 17. R9 5900HX, RTX 3070m, 16gb ddr4 3200, 1tb NVME.
Retro PC: Soyo P4S Dragon, 3gb ddr 266, 120gb Maxtor, Geforce Fx 5950 Ultra, SB Live! 5.1

Reply 8 of 10, by KCompRoom2000

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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.

Reply 9 of 10, by Deksor

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Well that one doesn't seem to be too much proprietary, the sound card is decent, the build quality is awesome (though the rubbery-thing wears off but I can fix this using "plasti dip"), etc ...

Since I've got good retro desktop computers (386s, 486s, pentiums ...), this will be useful if I want to play retro games on the go ^^

If I want the best audio and video quality out of my games I'll just use my desktop PCs

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Reply 10 of 10, by Deksor

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... FUCK

That piece of shit doesn't have the same connector 😠

and the board with the different connector is directly soldered to the old screen matrix, I can't even think to exchange them

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