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The road warrior's Ultimate Companion
If you like to travel light, portability is hard to beat with this little black pad. The X40 has sexy dimensions - the smallest IBM has ever come up with - and weighs like a supermodel at 2.7 lbs. Even the AC adapter is petite at 0.7 pounds. If you're not quite the high-powered business executive, the X40 fits snugly on a small food tray in economy. Bring it around in a laptop bag, and you won't even notice it's there, even when standing in the longest immigration line.
On opening this notebook, one feature that stands out is the keyboard, which has almost full-sized keys. Unless you have large hands, it feels almost as good as a desktop keyboard, with one minor niggle: the backspace key is tiny! Unlike its bigger ThinkPad brothers, the X40 also has no touchpad, but it has a rubbery pencil eraser trackpoint instead.
The X40 rarely warms up even when burning the midnight oil and the hard drive speaks in a whisper. With some nice little extras, the X40 is hardly a cold fish though. Pressing Fn-PgUp will open an amber colored keyboard light from the top edge of the screen. It works perfectly for those lonely moments on long night flights.
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Intel Pentium M 1.2 GHz. 512 MB DDR SDRAM. 40 GB RAM. 12.1" screen TFT active matrix. 1024 x 768 resolution. 4 to 5 hours battery life. Windows XP Professional. Dimensions: 10.6" x 8.3" x 1.1". Weight: 2.7 lbs
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Perfect for business types with elite status in multiple frequent flyer memberships.
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The 12.1-inch display with 1,024 by 768-pixel resolution gives you little real estate for moving around documents. But once you get used to the screen, a larger one seems extravagant. Overall, the screen gives you a clear view, although the chipset provided is more suited to mundane corporate life rather than games.
One major minus is the lack of an integrated optical drive. This can get annoying if you often need to view CD-ROMs. This problem can be relieved by adding IBM's UltraBase dock. Unfortunately, this makes the X40 quite obese and adds 1.3 pounds to the weight. For the frequent traveler, the dock is a turn-off.
Finally, the X40 comes with all the latest wireless links. That, coupled with the X40's slim frame, makes this premium notebook an ideal companion in your favorite café or in a wireless airport lounge. - Phil Sales
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T3 Magazine Philippines - March 2005 Issue
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