This 'fat' model featured the CD-ROM edition of Windows 95 preinstalled which included Internet Explorer 2.0. This also featured software options and improved services over that of the 760E, including an enhanced video card with MPEG2 hardware decoding and a DSP card with built-in modem/fax functionality.
They were only offered with Pentium 133Mhz CPUs but you could choose between either the SVGA or XGA 12.1" TFT. Each model could be upgraded to up-to 80Mb of RAM. All of them had a Cyber9385 video card and Mwave MDSP2780 soundcard, and the XGA model had a slightly larger 2.1Gb hard drive.
Many Thinkpads will not tell you the CPU in the Easy Setup BIOS program or inside Windows itself. So I use CHKCPU via a DOS boot disk to check on a machine's clock speed. Here's it running on a 760ED:
Here is a 760ED with the keyboard and screen removed. I wanted to confirm it was a true 'ED' with the DSP and chunkier video card.
The top board, with the salmon coloured heat transfer 'rubber' combines the machine's interposer with the Cyber 9835 video chips and hardware. It does have 5 x surface mounted electrolytics which could possibly do with replacing. I haven't seen them leaking (when the sound board ones sometimes do) but I do them all the same (with solid-state caps) without noticing any issues.
Here is with the top video board removed, which is held in by a few screws and connect via those two tight connectors in the middle:
Here you can see the original 5 electrolytics closer-up:
And here we have the DC board removed, which is a square board, which sits in the middle:
And not quite at the bottom, but now the DC board is removed we reveal the sound board far-left. In this shot, i've already replaced the two electrolytics with solid state (orange) Tantalum capacitors. You'll notice how much larger and how many more pins are on the more powerful MWAVE sound chip, covered in plastic on the right.
The large black rectangle on the left houses the optional modem connector daughtercard, but it's top "quick release" cover was removed to gain access to these depths of the machine.
Externally here you can see this ED's 'multimedia' ports on the side along with the fitted square modem connector:
On the left is a 3.5mm headphone output, and next to it a MIC input. Next, above the squard modem connector on the right, you have a camera input on the left and a TV output on the right.
Here is the disconnected 'fat' external floppy drive connector, which connects via the back of the laptop to the top, video/interposer board:
Infamous POP Password Jumper
Hidden in plain sight, looking like a connector, this is the jumper to clear any POP passwords. A POP password looks like a padlock with a human body. The SVP password is more like a square computer monitor. Be careful not to accidentally elevate a POP to an SVP because to clear the SVP you have to hook up to pins on the security chip and read the password as the machine is booting.
Optional Second Battery
You could add a second battery in place of the CD-ROM drive and here's it's connector with a blue protective cover:
