Have you ever heard of first color laptop screen? Maybe you have used the first color lcd panel for a long time, but you have no idea about this unfamiliar term – first color laptop screen. Actually, the history of first color laptop screen replacement can be dated back to 1991.
The manufacturer of the first TFT color laptop screen also introduced the world’s first mass market laptop computer. Well, it was only in 1991 and with the help of IBM that Toshiba introduced the first color laptop screen.
In 1989, IBM signed it first joint-production agreement with Toshiba as a joint venture to develop and manufacture color screens for laptops. Toshiba had realized that there were no viable alternative options to LCD technology for laptop screens.
Later on, in 1991 Toshiba started to manufacture the first TFT (thin-film transistor) color laptop screens. It was a win-win situation, in which Toshiba gained the worldwide marketing strength IBM had and IBM the Japanese company’s superior manufacturing technology.
A TFT laptop screen is a variant of LCD (liquid crystal display) screen which uses thin-film transistor technology in order to improve image quality. Transistors are imbedded in the LCD panel itself, improving image stability. Having said that, Toshiba brought innovation to the computer world, and mostly to portable computers that we call laptops today.
