Cute mini-laptop from the past - spec

Also known as PCG-461M

Spec

• Intel Pentium III-M 850 MHz
  • 32bits / 1 core (launched in Q1 2000)
• dispay Intel 815EM
• 256 MB RAM up to 384 MB.
  • MicroDIMM 144-pin
• display : Écran XGA (1024x768) p-Si TFT de 10,4 pouces - 21.2x16cm visible
  • ecran semblable en taile VSDISPLAY 10.4 Pouces / 2 / 3
• 10/100 Ethernet
• clavier - deposable - taille 96x245mm - (ref keyboard KFRLBB026A) - connecteur plat 24connector
• disque 3.5p IDE 30Go

Linux ?

• Damnsmall
• Installation report for a Sony Vaio SRX51P - with Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 - everything works
• Linux on Sony VAIO PCG-SRX51P - Arch Linux - 2010 ?
• Linux on the Sony VAIO PCG-SRX51P/A

Windows driver

• Please help to find PCG-SRX51P/A drivers
  • Sony VAIO PCG-SRX Series Recovery Discs CD (JP) [Windows XP] + Application Recovery

Hardware customisation

Keyboard

• Laptop’s internal keyboard as an external one? - In laptops, the keyboard controller circuitry is located on-motherboard, so the keyboard connects directly with a matrix cable.
  • hackaday - use a teensy microcontroler to replicate that funcstionnality
  • How to Make a USB Laptop Keyboard Controller

see also

• Laptop Screen
• DIY Portable KVM Crashcart From Recycled Laptop
  • Laptop Touchpad/Trackpoint Conversion to USB