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A very THICK laptop from about 1999. Has an excellent keyboard and a trackpoint, surprisingly good speakers and feels very well-built. Weaker than the Athlon 64 PC, but multitasks suprisingly well with Windows 98! The screen isn't that bad either for a 1999 LCD, it's active-matrix so no ghosting.
Does not really have enough RAM for modern Linux, although it runs the latest NetBSD release quite well.
With only 192 MB of RAM and no SSE2 support, don't even think of browsing modern websites on this one. I could upgrade it to 320 MB of RAM, but it's impressive enough how much it can do with only 192 MB.
This is a great laptop for DOS games - the BIOS allows disabling cache to slow down the CPU and the sound card is DOS-compatible, with an original OPL3. The sound card has a hardware MIDI synthesizer too. I think Toshiba made the best laptops in the 90s, on-par with ThinkPad build quality but with better hardware (especially sound).
The screws on this laptop have their size labeled on the case near them, so you won't accidentally screw the wrong screw back in. I wish this was the case on more devices.
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