Thanks for the welcome Kyodai, nice to find this little part of the internet, and others into the same hobby.
Kyodai wrote:I do love the IBM PC110. In 1995 it was breaking all records and made loads of jaws drop. And still today it is pretty useful - well OK the keyboard is a bit "difficult" to use with my gigantic hands - but definitely a fun machine.
I also have several Librettos. I always considered the 70 as the pinnacle of the librettos since the 100/110 are a bit larger. Plus the keyboard is indeed 10 times better than the PC110 one.
The PC110 is the ultimate 90's piece of tech, in my mind. Imagine turning up to a meeting with that thing in the day, and then getting down to do all your work off it! Mine came from a ? deceased ? collector who obviously went all out with different OSes on PCMCIA drives, it was his ultimate road warrior setup in the day. The dock seems an afterthought - pretty chunky for what limited ports it gives you. Built-in speakers would have been nice, or more PCMCIA/CF slots.
From other PC110s I've seen sold, it seems part of the LCD panel layers are starting to delaminate causing a yellow or "halo" effect of the screen edges. LCD still works, but within time the picture quality will degrade. Apple Powerbook LCDs of the era can suffer the same effect.
As for Librettos - I've been through a couple of 50CTs, which do overheat if overclocked, however the 70CT - if overclocked - I've never had any issue with.
Kyodai wrote:I always wanted a Sony P Series. If i can get one cheap I'll definitely buy it.
There are several on eBay but always overpriced; search for just VAIO/used and a cheap unidentified P model will come up one day

Worth finding, quite usable to this day.
Kyodai wrote:The U71P. Wow. "P" stands for "Pinnacle" - since this is by far the rarest and best version - i think it was only available online at the Japanese sony style website, never in stores. I had the slower and cheaper U50 - but i must admit as much as i loved the design of this thing i couldn't really live without a physical keyboard.
The U71P of mine comes with just 256MB RAM, like a past U50 I owned which is odd. It's an interesting thing and one day I'll remove all the Sony bloatware and see how I go running a stock install of XP on it. It came with a VAIO-branded foldable keyboard and little LCD remote thing (which I think can only be used in their DRM-based music playback software).
Kyodai wrote:I also love the newtons - not much for usability (There probably is but not for me), but because they were such an iconic and early PDA model.
I also used to have a palm VX, but as much as i tried, i couldn't get myself to really use it. I have to admit i did get less love than the newton.
Newtons < model 2000 are essentially useless, Apple finally got it right with the 2000/2100 but sadly the damage was done by then. Palm Pilots can be really cheap to find and much more usable than any Newton.
I'm currently setting up a 90's workstation using a Quadra 840AV, a PDA and having some palmtops nearby to complete the look.
Nice chatting!
JB