The ThinkPad – 15 Years Old

Lest we forget, it was 15 years ago today that the first ThinkPad came out. Of course, it’s not the ThinkPad as we know it – more of a Tablet actually, the ThinkPad 700T, or model # 2521, sporting a then-high resolution 10″ touchscreen display … Read more

Review: ThinkPad X61 Tablet (Student Tablet PC)

Tracy over at The Student Tablet PC has posted another review of the Lenovo ThinkPad X61 Tablet. The ThinkPad X61 Tablet is Lenovo’s Santa Rosa-based 12.1″ (non-widescreen) tablet offering in the ultraportable “convertible” class (you can convert the ThinkPad between a traditional laptop format and … Read more

Article: Laptops Reach the Holy Grail

Tim Bajarin has written an interesting article for PC Magazine, Laptops Reach the Holy Grail, talking about ultraportable laptops hitting the “sweet” spot of computing, weighing around or under 3 pounds and having a “two-spindle system” containing both a hard drive and an optical drive. … Read more

HP Compaq 2710p: Pricing / Ship Dates

HP has released price and shipping details about their new “convertible” ultraportable, the HP Compaq 2710p. The earliest it looks like it ships is July 21, 2007, and the price starts at $1649 USD. All are shipping with Microsoft Windows Vista Business 32-bit/64-bit, with the … Read more

Review: Dell XPS M1330 and Toshiba Portege R500 (WSJ)

In his Personal Technology columm for the Wall Street Journal (subscription maybe required), Walt Mossberg has reviewed two new offerings from Dell and Toshiba, the Dell XPS M1330 and the Toshiba Portege R500. The Toshiba Portege R500 weighs in at around 2.5 pounds and has … Read more