The world's THINNEST laptop (in 2001) 

With intel it's a bit weirder, I haven't found them on the wayback machine, but they might have a support page containing download links to discontinued drivers, if all else fails shady websites might hold the link

i was gonna say this, for me 80% of times this works for any site that holds any direct download link to a file that can't be found (even if the site itself is dead and you just found a link somewhere else)

That's really strange, I don't think the Wayback Machine included those as part of the website snapshot. It's more like those files are still hosted somewhere in the company's servers, only the link is broken in the modern website for some reason.

@@BilisNegra they take a snapshot of the contents of the pages which are just files on a server in the end, so they probably save the other files the same way. I'm not sure how but it saved me precious hours a few times already.

Not just drivers, the wayback machine even has software. I remember getting software for long dead websites because of it. Save me so much headache! I believe it has to do with how the downloads are linked. If it's a direct download the wayback machine should be able to download it. If there is some intermediate step like accepting some disclaimer then it will probably never be downloaded.

Make a video

This video did a great job covering all the important facts about the Portege. Can't think of any other info to add.

Does it still work perfectly fine? How often was it used/cleaned? I am wondering about how to best maintain a retro PC, that's why I ask about how it was treated.

​@@perfectlyroundcircleIt's been a few years since I booted it, but last time I did it still worked. But it was very slow due to the paltry 256-MB RAM as it constantly paged to the HDD. I used it mainly for writing when away from my desktop, so it never received much heavy use and is still in really good shape. For the past decade it's been sitting inside a filing cabinet since I have a hard time throwing things out.

@@MonkDarkfyre Interesting. The old machines that still work are used just like that, rarely. Not too intensely but also booted up every few years.

When they had some understanding in quality control

Then they died.

I used to love their notebooks. They where indestructible. I had one that I forget in a table bus the wind when it starded to rain. It was soaking wet. I removed the battery, and let it ope to dry and worked perfectly even after.

@@major505 I am still using a Toshiba laptop with a 1 gen i3.

@@DonMr warrior! Toshiba laptops were synonym of quality top quality in Brazil.

I have done the psychoanalytics for you and are sad because you thought you were king of the hill, top of your game, with your Toshiba, and it turns out it was a foundation of dust.

@@mikelemire5708What the hell are you even talking about dude?

It was sold to Sharp and are now branded as dynabooks

they went out of buisness?

@@powerpc64 i think he meant from the PC market, considering i just bought a Toshiba microwave a few hours ago

@@jjjacer You're correct. I should have been more specific.

They didn't quite go out of business - they sold the computer brand off as Dynabook to Sharp, and that brand is still going.

Toshiba more or less directly left the consumer electronics market (outside of licensing their name), in favor of enterprise and B2B (eg their point of sale business they bought from IBM a decade ago).

Do you think their rubber point stick with vertically arranged buttons had anything to do with it? Its an ergonomic nightmare.

Dang i didn't know they were the first notebooks to have all those features.

and whose fault is that loss of market share, Product Manager at Toshiba?

One word: China

sounds like someone had lied

Some envelopes are fatter than others :)

Is quake easy to run? I've had laptops from that era with graphics adapters that would not game at all (I think it was a trident card also, or S3) so I don't believe it can get much better. It's just for productivity work.

@@volvo09 He said Trident card in the video, so with only 16MB of RAM, and it being system shared RAM at 256MB so super slow, and not good for gaming, and barely enough for productivity in Win XP. In fact I remember 32bit XP struggling to do some office task in Open Office with 4GB(3.5GB usable) of system ram, and a dual core AMD Athlon XP CPU.

@@CommodoreFan64 yeah the way I see these graphics adapters is they are only good for running an OS. Shared 100mhz system memory isn't going to be a gaming card for anything but dos games that would run on a good 486 system.

@@volvo09 I could run Quake on an old PowerMac with NO GPU back in the late 90s so yeah

@@CommodoreFan64 For gaming in 2001, that's a respectable GPU. It definitely should be able to run Quake better than that.

1 POINT 66, and take that metric **** somewhere else

It is a good term and should be maintained.

@@johnfranklin2996 I think it's a phrase designed to appeal to those who revel in their own self-importance.

define "played around"

@@johnfranklin2996 I repaired some water damage. Reolaced the HDD with an SD Card. THen I installed Windows XP and OS X Tiger in a dualboot. I made some videos about it

When I saw that 1.8" drive, yeah, that's my exact thought that I had.

There are adapters in that 1.8 inch IDE format that will allow you to convert to an MSATA SSD, I have done just that with an IBM Thinkpad X40 laptop that I have. The only thing to be careful of is the adapters come in both 3.3v and 5.0v versions, so you need to get the right one for the machine.

why care when a Handspring Visor would sync nicely?

I have to refute you on this one. I worked in a computer store, I had hands on experience with all of the cheap laptops, and Toshiba made the worst of the worst laptops. The case would flex so much that the screws would fall out. Without the support of the screws, the case the hinge attached to would break apart. The letters would wear off the keys, touchpads would have a copper hole in the middle, DC jacks would fail but not break, or they would work but the plastic holding it in place would break. I fixed several with epoxy for customers who didn't want to pay for all new plastic panels. The heavy touchscreens of the time made the problem worse. I have actually seen Dynabooks in person, my workplace mistakenly bought a few A50's a couple years ago. They are a blast from the past, and not in a good way. Huge thick bezels, CD-ROM, swappable battery, flexy keyboard, barrel connector, but miserable hollow feeling plastic with a rough finish. Just a continuation of the C series. They are branded as Dynabook Inc. on the bottom with no mention of Toshiba, Sharp, or Foxconn. It's probably the worst laptop on sale today, maybe the better models are better.

You gotta look sharp

⁠​⁠@@compaqdeskpro5770you probably had the cheap Toshiba Dynabook models, not the durable ones with high specs! When I was in college, decades ago those Toshiba laptops were good built quality, I had a classmate that ran FPS games like unreal tournament and Quake 3, it ran smooth from the CD rom drive! The later Dynabook models were probably terrible that Toshiba sold off their computer division since they mismanaged the company!

@@mikelemire5708 Sharp make the OEM for the laptop screens.

they have NOT fallen anywhere, they are doing great

@@allentoyokawa9068 Don't see their products at all any more.

I imagine it would be fine on this laptop. I was running emulation software for NES, Sega Genesis/32x and SNES on a 486DX4 running DOS, way back in the day and the games ran well.

Is it a sony vaio pro?

Such software is utterly rubbish when it comes to do an actual job, looking for some generic/wrong/outdated drivers looking at the device name, bios report etc, which is often very off to what's the real hardware inside. Or maybe I was using something really off and shady (it was some time ago), but I've never found this really helpful when needed.

Those must have been super rare because there isn't even one list on Ebay. NOT ONE!

where did you live, Idaho?