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*Intel Mobile 486SL DX2 50MHz CPU | *Intel Mobile 486SL DX2 50MHz CPU | ||
*8 MB EDO RAM (standard) up to 24 MB Max (16MB on Toshiba proprietary RAM module) | *8 MB EDO RAM (standard) up to 24 MB Max (16MB on Toshiba proprietary RAM module) | ||
*8.4-inch TFT color LCD (640x480 resolution, | *8.4-inch TFT color LCD (640x480 resolution, 55:1 contrast ratio, 256k colours) | ||
*Western Digital WD90C24A | *Western Digital WD90C24A video chipset (1MB VRAM, 1024x768 256 colour capable) | ||
*No sound card | *No sound card | ||
*250 MB HDD | *250 MB HDD | ||
* | *No floppy drive | ||
=== Other === | === Other === | ||
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Disassembly is very difficult as there are many screws and clips. Even removing the internal harddrive is quite an adventure. This is typical of many compact Toshiba laptops. Unfortunately, the poor board design and many shortcomings such as the harddrive make this model quite avoidable. Keep in mind that compatible 486-era harddrives are very difficult to find in good condition and they are quite small. Modern IDE harddrives and flash storage solutions such as compact flash are entirely incompatible although a 1.3 GB harddrive is reported to be usable. | Disassembly is very difficult as there are many screws and clips. Even removing the internal harddrive is quite an adventure. This is typical of many compact Toshiba laptops. Unfortunately, the poor board design and many shortcomings such as the harddrive make this model quite avoidable. Keep in mind that compatible 486-era harddrives are very difficult to find in good condition and they are quite small. Modern IDE harddrives and flash storage solutions such as compact flash are entirely incompatible although a 1.3 GB harddrive is reported to be usable. | ||
== Greatest features & flaws == | |||
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| Reasonable Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 performance for a 486 laptop || Very small LCD screen | |||
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| Integrated trackpoint || No LCD brightness control, no soundcard support | |||
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| Quite good keyboard and case durability || Very poor, difficult disassembly and service | |||
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| The most compact 486 laptop || No internal drives, no VGA output port | |||
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== Review == | == Review == | ||
A fast, quite slim laptop, released in 1994, with a good LCD screen but a way too small chassis. Everything feels overly cramped starting with the screen, moving further to the keyboard and trackpoint buttons. An additional design failure is the lack of a VGA output on the laptop, meaning that using an external screen requires the bulky docking station. The display has only two brightness levels, standard and energy saving. Response time is acceptable. | A fast, quite slim laptop, released in 1994, with a quite good LCD screen but a way too small chassis. Everything feels overly cramped starting with the screen, moving further to the keyboard and trackpoint buttons. An additional design failure is the lack of a VGA output on the laptop, meaning that using an external screen requires the bulky docking station. The display has only two brightness levels, standard and energy saving. Response time is acceptable. | ||
It has a medium performance CPU, with an average video controller for a 486. The CPU does not release too much heat so active cooling is not necessary. The keyboard has reasonable tactile feedback but it is very far from being the best, with quite a long key travel and a mushy feel. The trackpoint thumb stick feels quite uncomfortable, requiring the use of an external pointing device, an external mouse. The laptop's plastic case is somewhat durable but the internal design is horrendously complex, requiring lots of disassembly to access even the harddrive. | It has a medium performance CPU, with an average video controller for a 486. The CPU does not release too much heat so active cooling is not necessary. The keyboard has reasonable tactile feedback but it is very far from being the best, with quite a long key travel and a mushy feel. The trackpoint thumb stick feels quite uncomfortable, requiring the use of an external pointing device, an external mouse. The laptop's plastic case is somewhat durable but the internal design is horrendously complex, requiring lots of disassembly to access even the harddrive. | ||
Having no floppy drive or any other way of plugging an external CD-ROM or floppy drive meant that the laptop was very poor in terms of flexibility. Although having a floppy drive was somewhat difficult with such a case, the lack of ports on the laptop itself for connecting any external storage, without the docking station, is a very major design flaw. The rechargeable battery can be easily removed or replaced. There were many Toshiba laptops that used the same battery and working with a removed battery does not affect stability or aesthetics. There are two more internal rechargeable NimH batteries inside the laptop that may leak and are somewhat harder to replace (not the typical, compact CR2032 3V button cell). They are used for Bios settings and memory suspension features. | |||
The integrated speaker is way too small for any decent listening, capable of only the standard PC beeper output. No effort was made for integrating a sound card, not entirely unsurprising for a laptop released in 1994, but quite so for a Japanese laptop. | The integrated speaker is way too small for any decent listening, capable of only the standard PC beeper output. No effort was made for integrating a sound card, not entirely unsurprising for a laptop released in 1994, but quite so for a Japanese laptop. | ||
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# There was only a single model with these specifications, meaning that | # There was only a single model with these specifications, meaning that identification is very easy. | ||
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[[Category:Toshiba]] | [[Category:Toshiba laptops]] | ||