IBM ThinkPad T40p.* This laptop beats my recently purchased desktop PC hands down (and you can hear my teeth grinding as I write this). If you consider yourself a power user A person who is very proficient with computers. It implies knowledge of a variety of applications. and this digital behemoth behemoth (bē`hĭmŏth, bĭhē`–) [Heb.,=plural of beast], large, fanciful primeval monster, like Leviathan, evoking the hippopotamus mentioned in the Book of Job. In the Book of Psalms the term occurs in a non-mythological context. isn't enough for you, you're not a power user, you're a computing megalomaniac freak. * Potential new owners can configure IBM's amazing new portable any which way, but if you want to go totally crazy, you can get one that has a Mobile Pentium 1.60GHz CPU (with an Intel 855PM chipset), 1GB of DDR SDRAM, a 60-gig, 7,200rpm hard disk, a DVD/CD-RW combo drive, a 64MB ATI MOBILITY Fire GL 9000 video card Same as display adapter. displaying on a 14.1-inch SXGA (1,400x1,050) LCD monitor and runs on Windows XP Professional. * Of course if all that makes sense to you, you're going to want to know what's on offer round the backside of the machine, so here we go. It has IEEE 802.11a/b, Bluetooth and Gigabit Ethernet ports, two Type II PC card slots, two USB 2.0, one parallel, one S-Video and one D-Sub15 port. Closed up and ready to travel, it does weigh a slightly hefty 2.42kg, but then that's probably due to the high-capacity, longer-life battery that'll run for a full seven hours without a recharge. More info: www-6.ibm.com/jp/ NewsDB.nsf/2003/07251 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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