I've owned a series of Thinkpads over the years. Like them very much. Recently I bought my wife an I series model 1721 Thinkpad. Very nice machine, it comes with a 14.1" active matrix screen, 300mhz PII processor, 64meg RAM, 5.4GB drive, built in 56k modem and 2x DVD so you can watch movies on it! I have access to IBM employee prices thru relatives so I paid $2159 for the machine. When originally released it sold for $2999 street, have seen it lately for around $2500. Since Intel just cut prices again, you might be able to do even better. The 14.1" screen is 'panoramic', especially if you are moving up from a 10.4". The other nice thing is that it is a 3 spindle machine, so all is built in. Toshiba also makes trackpoint equipped laptops, if you are looking for an even better deal they have an AMD equipped 3 spindle machine with a 14.1" screen for around 1900 bucks!! IBM is announcing an intriguing machine on Monday dubbed the 'transformer'. It will be the Thinkpad 570, a slim 560 like machine that detaches from a base that contains the CDROM/DVD and accessories. I'm guessing it will be more expensive than the I series though.
Regards,
John |
