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IBM Thinkpad R40e

weight of 2.7kg it is light and small. This makes it excellent for travelling with. You hardly notice it in your backpack. It has an Intel Celeron 2 Ghz which isn't too brilliant nowadays but satisfies all my needs of using broadband internet and writing essays and presentations. It has 256 mb of RAM also which again is not brillian but satisfies my needs. I can play certain modern games with excellent graphics as well which is a bonus to say the least. In terms of storage space the hard drive is 30Gb which is plenty, my desktop contains 10 Gb and this is pretty full. Should take me a while to fill up 30Gb. The optical device is a CD-rewriter / DVD ROM. This ...

IBM Thinkpad 390X

I own an IBM Think Pad 390 series laptop, which I was fortunate enough to be given as part of the Computers for Teachers initiative. As ICT Manager for the school, I argued the case for me having one to test CD-Roms, write policies, etc. I use it in the same way as I would a PC, it is not exactly now portable as I have more peripherals on it than you can shake a stick at – 3D speakers, roller mouse, headphones, microphone, scanner, printer and digital camera. Also, of course, I leave the laptop on a virtually permanent internet connection. My wife always complains as she never gets to “play” on it – she prefers to play ...

IBM Thinkpad 390X

drive and a disk drive in it which is detachable. At first I also thought I could plug all my cables into it therefore I could just detach my Laptop and go very easily without removing, external mouse, keyboard, palm pilot hot sync cable, external disk drvies etc. but no only the power cable can be plugged into the docking station and left connected. Hence I don't really see the point of having it. The docking station makes the whole thing rather heavy which means when travelling I still take my external disk drive and leave the docking station behind. Also if the laptop is turned on when you attach it to the docking station, mine always recongises it as new ...