Unlike Microsoft’s much-desired Courier project, Toshiba’s twin screen concept laptop has actually made the jump into the real world, with the innovative Libretto W100 twin screen device now available for order in the US.
With netbooks recently overtaking laptops in worldwide sales figures, we were prompted to dig out our trusty old Toshiba Libretto 50 and see how it shaped up to modern rivals.
Released over twelve years ago in January 1997, the Tosh was seen as something of a mini-marvel in its day, being the first mini-notebook computer to both pack an Intel Pentium (hurtling along at 75MHz) and run Microsoft Windows 95.
The Libretto 50 was Toshiba’s second mini-PC, succeeding the Libretto 20 released in the previous April.
The latest l’il Libretto managed to run a full version of the Windows 95 operating system and came with Microsoft Word for Windows 95, Excel, Lotus Organizer 97 and Internet Explorer V3.0 pre-installed.
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