Lenovo Recalls Laptop Batteries Over Fire Risk
News A Lenovo ThinkPad T43 caught fire at Los Angeles International Airport earlier this month. Lenovo acquired the ThinkPad line of notebooks from IBM, which historically has been known for careful design.
[September 29, 2006, 8:40]
ThinkPad Confirmed As Burning Laptop
News A burning laptop that frightened passengers at Los Angeles International Airport over the weekend was a ThinkPad, Lenovo confirmed Wednesday, and that notebook ships with Sony's battery technology. Lenovo dispatched a team of investigators to Los...
[September 21, 2006, 10:50]
ThinkPad X60 Rejuvenated!
Blog My poor old 512MB ThinkPad X60, which had a happy early life running Windows XP but then suffered a crippling attack of Windows Vista, has now been restored — almost — to productive use thanks to a timely install of Ubuntu 7.10 (a.k.a.
[October 30, 2007, 8:54]
Anti-spam Service Battles Bugs
News In a test by CNET News.com on an IBM ThinkPad running Outlook on Windows 2000, the installation did not automatically create a "spam" folder. The bug page calls out two main problems. With a beta you're always going to have some configuration...
[June 21, 2002, 10:13]
IBM Test-drives Transformer Computer
News Of the prototypes that have made it to production, the "butterfly keyboard" design was wildly popular among ThinkPad buyers. Other designs, such as IBM's recently mothballed ThinkPad TransNote, were less successful.
[February 7, 2002, 9:38]
A Tale Of Two Vista Systems
Blog The first was a nice ultraportable ThinkPad X60, with 512MB of RAM and integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics. Then I bunged Vista Business on it, instantly rendering it unusably slow (don't try Vista with less than 1GB of RAM, it's not worth it), and...
[August 22, 2007, 10:10]
Mobile Quirks Stop Users Booting Windows 98
News One notebook user, an engineer at a communications company, encountered the problem when he attempted to upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows 98 on several notebooks: a Toshiba Portege 660CDT, a Micron Transport XKE and an IBM ThinkPad 760.
[June 29, 1998, 9:36]
ID Theft: The Next IT Industry Boom?
News IBM believes that even smart cards don't go far enough, and touts the embedded security chip in its NetVista and ThinkPad range as the ultimate in security. He indicated this could lead to a range of legal problems.
[June 13, 2002, 8:52]
Belkin To Unveil Christmas Bluetooth Line
News IBM sells one notebook with Bluetooth -- the ThinkPad X30 -- and Sony sells a Bluetooth-enabled Vaio. Still, incompatibilities, security and other problems are expected to cost consumers and businesses $5.6bn a year, according to Gartner.
[October 15, 2002, 15:39]
IBM Widens Big Blue Utilities' Reach
News Previously, the tools were only available for IBM ThinkCentre desktops and ThinkPad notebooks, even though some customers requested versions that would work with other brands of PCs as well. But "one of the problems up until now has been that it...
[March 29, 2004, 12:15]
