Brushed Titanium for IBM Thinkpad

[Archived in Entry, IBM]

[Geeky Info] The move away from the signature colour scheme, which is understood to have dismayed some IBM traditionalists, underlines Lenovo’s determination to widen the market for the Thinkpad range following its US$1.75bn acquisition of the IBM unit in May and its efforts to break away from the IBM image. “

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[intarweb-master] IBM-Lenovo ThinkPad Z Series: However, for quite a while, all ThinkPads came with a normal 4:3 screen, with no option for widescreen. The Z Series not only introduces widescreen, but also optional built-in EV-DO, a 3-in-1 memory card reader, and an option to have Linux pre-installed (an option that has been available in China for some time).

 [Gizmodo.com] Gizmodo, The Gadget blog: The Thinkpad Z60m has a 15.4-inch XGA widescreen, is scratch resistant and comes integrated with Verizon Wireless Broadband Access (WWAN), all for $799. Also look for the Z60t, being touted as the “industry’s thinnest and lightest widescreen notebook in its class.”

[Breakingnewsblog.com] Laptop Review: Mobile Mag reviews the Asus W5A Notebook and writes - ‘Although the Asus W5A makes an excellent mobile device for office work, graphics type functions with Photoshop and other similar resource intensive applications do suffer, mainly on the account of the 4200RPM hard drive. The systems overall performance could change drastically with a faster hard drive, of course this is obvious, and the fact that it does not have a 3D graphics card is also a major draw back.

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Posted at September 25, 2005 01:49 PM