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 and this digital behemoth isn't enough for you, you're not a power user, you're a computing megalomaniac meg·a·lo·ma·ni·a n. 1. A psychopathological condition characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, or omnipotence. 2. An obsession with grandiose or extravagant things or actions. 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 CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. (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 displaying on a 14.1-inch SXGA (Super XGA) A screen resolution of 1280x1024 pixels. SXGA is commonly used on standard monitors, but provides a 1.25:1 aspect ratio, compared to the more common 1.33:1 (4:3) ratio. SXGA+ has a 1400x1050 resolution, which is an exact 1.33:1 ratio. See PC display modes. (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 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11a/b, Bluetooth and Gigabit Ethernet ports, two Type II PC card slots, two USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 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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