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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (16846)	12/14/2005 12:52:22 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

Brian, Lenovo sells Thinkpads with finger print recognition. Like the sensor found on the Fujitsu LifeBook P7010D we tried previously, we found IBM's slide sensor a bit more time-consuming to use than the older contact sensor windows that most fingerprint-reader-equipped laptops use. It's harder to slide a finger across a tiny sensor three times in exactly the same way than it is to merely press a finger in the comparatively large postage-stamp-size window used by contact sensors. It took us five tries--15 swipes altogether--to register our finger on the T42, and later, several tries to get the laptop to recognize our registered finger. By comparison, it usually takes only a couple of tries to register a finger in a contact sensor window. On the bright side, slide sensors can make a larger image of the finger being read, which gives the match software more data to analyze and theoretically results in tighter security. [snip] sounds like it's not ready for prime time pcworld.com