Skinny laptop, hefty keyboard

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The IBM Thinkpad 240 lists for $1999. It weighs 3 pounds, and is about as big as a 1 inch high stack of letter sized paper. The ultralight laptop has a 300 MHz Celeron chip, 64 MB RAM, and a 6.4 GB HD. CD-ROM and floppy drives are external options. The machine has a battery life of 1.5 hrs, which can be doubled for an additional $189. The LCD screen is adequate for most non-graphic intensive uses: email, wordprocessing, Web surfing. The 240 has a substantial array of built in ports, along with a 56K modem. The laptop's 18mm key centers approach the 19mm pitch of a standard keyboard, so the user doesn't have to adapt their typing as they would with most machines in this class.

Evaluation, Computer industry, Product/Service Evaluation, Product introduction, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Column, IBM ThinkPad 240 (Pentium II-based notebook), Notebook computers, Notebook computer

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Geek elite: gadgets they use

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What sorts of products do top-level techology industry executives carry with them? Attendees of the PC Forum 99 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, included Jeff Bizos of Amazon.com, John Sculley, formerly of Apple Computer, David Nagle of AT& T and Terry Lonier of Working Solo. Products that were prominent among them included Nokia cell phones, Palm Computing personal digital assistants, laptop computers from Sharp and Sony and Motorola pagers.

Innovations, Officials and employees, High technology industry, Product information, Cellular technology, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Electronics industry, Electronics, Executives, Technological innovations, Public opinion, Personal digital assistants, Personal digital assistant, Laptop/portable computer, Portable computers

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