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Can Ultrabooks push up laptop prices?

...3.1lbs). There have always been Windows laptops without optical drives, including IBM's ThinkPad X range and Toshiba's Portégés. However, PCs... Read more

3 January, 2012

Microsoft pries open PDA clamshells

...PC platform: Some are similar in size to sub-notebooks, such as IBM's ThinkPad 240 and Toshiba's Portege 3400; and others are tablets... Read more

7 September, 2000 by Richard Shim

IBM ThinkPad T42 range: a first look

...format DVD burner, the snappily named ThinkPad Multi-Burner UltraBay Slim Drive. IBM's ThinkPad T42 features the Dothan (90nm Pentium M) processor, 802.11b... Read more

10 May, 2004 by Charles McLellan

IBM ThinkPad X30

IBM’s ThinkPad X30 is an ideal travelling companion: it's light enough... Read more

12 November, 2002 by Dominic Bucknall

The laptop and the doomsday device

IBM's ThinkPad contains world-class security - as Rupert Goodwins discovered to his... Read more

8 February, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins

IBM ThinkPad X22

...have the lightest possible system, and don't mind the lower performance, IBM's ThinkPad X22 may be the ultraportable for you. Otherwise, look elsewhere... Read more

25 January, 2002 by Jonathan Bennett

New ThinkPad is state of the art

IBM's ThinkPad 770 will shortly leapfrog Toshiba and take Big Blue back... Read more

24 September, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Lenovo plans convertable ThinkPad

...click buttons, the X41 Tablet Series looks like any other model of IBM's ThinkPad laptop line. However, the 12-inch screen of the X41T... Read more

6 June, 2005 by Michael Singer

Dell Latitude X1

...it scored 177 in our MobileMark 2002 test, 32 percent faster than IBM's ThinkPad X40 and 21 percent faster than Fujitsu Siemens' LifeBook P7010... Read more

13 May, 2005 by Brian Nadel and Charles McLellan

IBM shows off fuel cell with mobile potential

...a statement. "This hybrid system could enable the user to efficiently operate IBM's ThinkPad notebooks for a longer time compared to systems with only... Read more

12 April, 2005 by Dinesh C Sharma

Linux laptops get Centrino inside

...for 802.11a/b/g networks. Rob Herman, a programme manager with IBM's ThinkPad division, said IBM is a major Linux backer, but it... Read more

20 January, 2005 by Stephen Shankland

IBM beefs up security on ThinkPad T42

...will be available from 19 October, starting at £1,300 (ex. VAT). IBM's ThinkPad T42 now features an integrated fingerprint sensor on selected models... Read more

4 October, 2004 by Charles McLellan

Sony VAIO B1 Series: a first look

...VAIO B1 series challenges the likes of Dell's Latitude D400 and IBM's ThinkPad T42. Sony's thin-and-light design will appeal to... Read more

1 October, 2004 by Brian Nadel

Power to the people: ZDNet's guide to notebook batteries

...their batteries as we'd like -- even long-lived notebooks, such as IBM's ThinkPad X31, last only 8 hours on two batteries. To help... Read more

14 April, 2004 by Brian Nadel

Acer widens notebook screen

...than many of the other business-oriented desktop replacement machines, such as IBM's ThinkPad G Series. Acer will offer four versions of the Aspire... Read more

3 March, 2004 by John G.Spooner

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Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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Philip Charles Cohen

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apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

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songmaster

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PatrickG

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Leslie Satenstein

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Andy Bolstridge

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Jack Schofield

@openhgs Windows users have had multiple desktops since Linus started writing Linux. They just haven't shipped as standard because not enough...

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