These laptops have a design that is very reminiscent of the PowerBook 100 Series, except of course that they didn't copy its best design element, the trackball/keyboard placement. Instead, Chaplet put the keyboard up against the bottom edge, and the trackball above it on the top right edge. Dang it Chaplet! You came so close.
These laptops were actually made by Chaplet, not some other company. Chaplet was based out of Taiwan, made many, MANY laptops if their FCC records are to be believed, and were bought out in 1999 by Toshiba.
I've seen these with passive matrix grayscale and color screens, along with one that's active matrix, likely color but was not shown powered on. It only had one brightness slider when all others I've seen had two. It was also labelled "NBD 486T", likely meaning TFT.
These were marketed directly by Chaplet, but were also at least sold in Poland by Optimus. It's possible that other companies did too.
I don't have any photos I can put up, but I can link to some:
oldcrap.org pageThere is a potential that specs vary between models and screen types. These were largely taken from the oldcrap.org page.
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