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Toshiba Libretto 50CT Teardown
Teardown
Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.
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The Libretto is the father of today's netbooks, this little laptop can support up to 32MB of RAM memory and 2GB of HD. There's the support for an external screen thanks to his docking-station, and it has a bundled floppy drive too!
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Toshiba Libretto 50CT Teardown
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Say "Hello" to Libretto!
This is very small, the dimensions are about 21x11,5x3
The best OS fitting inside it is Windows 95, the base RAM is 16Mb (yes, that's 16!) and the bundled HD has 810Mb of memory.
There is no floppy integrated, only a PCMCIA slot, a IR port mapped as COM2, a mini-jack for audio (back), a speaker, the power connector and the base attachment.
The screen is about 6", 16-bit color, the backlit is powered by a neon light as usual in LCDs.

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Before starting with screwdrivers it's better to remove first the battery.
It's like nowadays notebooks, move the slide-button and pull the battery.
The battery-pack contains 9 batteries, as usual 1.2v each 1200mAh; that makes 10.8v, enough to power the HDD, the PCMCIA, the screen and the processor at the same time.
The model number is: PA2497U
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