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Laptop status LED's These old laptops certainly had loads of status LED's on them. Shown are the various LED's on the front and back of the lid which is actually part of the inverter board. The laptop also has indicator LED's for the ethernet port, modem port, DVD-ROM and also the ultra-bay. The thing lights up and blinks like a Christmas tree when powered on lol. Insert picture at the top is from the top of the lid so you can see what it's doing when the lid is closed.

Laptop status LED's

These old laptops certainly had loads of status LED's on them. Shown are the various LED's on the front and back of the lid which is actually part of the inverter board.
The laptop also has indicator LED's for the ethernet port, modem port, DVD-ROM and also the ultra-bay.

The thing lights up and blinks like a Christmas tree when powered on lol.
Insert picture at the top is from the top of the lid so you can see what it's doing when the lid is closed.

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oliver   [30 Mar, 2020 at 06:34 PM]
I used to like how old laptops had these. I remember the old XP Toshiba satallite pros had loads of LEDs near the touchpad. You could still see them when the lid was down.
Ash   [30 Mar, 2020 at 07:55 PM]
Have Thinkads T60, T61, T400 with the same screen and LEDs. Some of the best laptops ever made, and i still use them to this day
FrontSideBus   [30 Mar, 2020 at 08:10 PM]
I whacked in as much RAM as it could take, an SSD and a C2D T7400 which makes it zip along quite nicely for web browsing and word processing. Tempted to source a T61 motherboard to fit into it to create a FrankenPad lol, much better CPU and RAM options then.
HIDLamp   [30 Mar, 2020 at 08:18 PM]
I remember when dad's old Panasonic Toughbooks had all this lot on it.
Ash   [30 Mar, 2020 at 08:40 PM]
I use ultimately Linux. It works perfectly even with the latest Plasma (one of the most resource demanding desktops), even with the stock C2D and max. 3GB RAM that the T60 supports. (The problem there comes when compiling big stuff like libreoffice or web browsers, that genuinely needs 4GB RAM minimum, for that i compile on a desktop instead)
FrontSideBus   [30 Mar, 2020 at 08:45 PM]
This came with a 32 bit 1.6gig core duo which was a bit rubbish lol. Ultimately I didn’t get this to do anything serious, it was just a cheap toy to play about with. Mad to think this would have cost upwards of £1800 when new. I am tempted to get a new Lenovo ThinkPad now though...
Ash   [30 Mar, 2020 at 08:49 PM]
Great thing about Linux is, unless you actually run something demanding, you could have a P4 HT and it'll still be very responsive. As long as you have decent RAM and for something like Plasma a GPU that supports some basic acceleration like an Intel 915/945

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