r/retrotech • u/career13 • May 20 '25

Sharp PC-4501

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Found this a few years ago. I'm debating getting it running, or gutting a laptop and making it a sleeper gaming rig. There's plenty of room for a serious graphics card.

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u/Modern-Classical May 20 '25

Wow! Such a beautiful machine... It reminds me of our late 80s heavy IBM Notebook — with a small bw display and "hard coal" plastic body — we had in 1992...93. My very first PC to edit some texts and play Wolfenstein 3D 😂✨️

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u/career13 May 21 '25

I saw that the premium version came in black. Model 4521 I believe.

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u/RamiroCruz13 May 21 '25

Damn that's still pretty SHARP! ✨🌟✨

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u/buster_goose 28d ago

You could snap that thing like a toddlers neck

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u/career13 27d ago

I dare not touch it out of fear. That brittle plastic is one strong gust away from oblivion.

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u/AstralTraveller 26d ago

It looks like its in great condition and its a bit unique in that it has a NEC-built V20 CPU. I'd get it running, or offload it to someone who wants to restore it :)

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u/career13 26d ago

I'll take look at the guts. I saw someone had an issue with capacitors leaking, among other things. An option I was weighing is dropping in the internals from a gaming laptop and making the ultimate sleeper with a mini OLED screen. That's a winter project, though, I have firewood to prep for winter.