ThinkPad X60: Lenovo.www.lenovo (Lenovo, Purchase, NY, www.lenovo.com) Asia's largest PC manufacturer, founded in China in 1984 by Liu Chuanzhi from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the late 1980s, the company, first known as Legend, introduced a circuit board that generated Chinese characters on Western-made PCs and .com/us/en Hardware, $1,799 This tablet PC (1) A tablet computer environment from Microsoft that is based on an enhanced version of Windows XP. Designed to function more like a portable writing tablet than previous tablet-based computers, it includes handwriting recognition as well as the ability to retain handwritten words features a new 12-inch multi-view indoor/outdoor, antireflective/antiglare display that helps increase viewability in multiple environments. This screen is combined with a MultiTouch feature that allows users to move the cursor (1) The symbol used to point to some element on screen. On Windows, Mac and other graphics-based screens, it is also called a "pointer," and it changes shape as it is moved with the mouse into different areas of the application. with a pen or finger. It also comes equipped with an Active Rotation function that orients to the user. A redesigned navigational dial lets users move easily in four directions and remaps keys so up is always up as the user changes orientation. In addition, a new, more natural and durable pen resumes from suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. mode automatically when a user removes it from its cradle. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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