The IBM ThinkPad: 15 years old today
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The iconic black laptop celebrates its birthday Forgotten Tech The ThinkPad is 15 today. Sort of. Launched by IBM and now made by Lenovo, the black-clad laptop family quickly established itself as an icon, in many ways re-establishing Big Blue's reputation as a PC maker after years in the shadow of the clone manufacturers.â¦
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Ross Mayfield has an interesting take on the Lenovo/IBM deal and bringing open source to the desktop in his blog... I believe their commoditization strategy is more than hardware.
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IBM has offered a security chip on some of its ThinkPad laptops, and the company will now be offering a similar technology on select desktop models.
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In September, IBM announced that the Blue Gene/L prototype had sustained speeds of 36 trillion calculations per second. Last week, NASA announced that a system built by Silicon Graphics had topped that by sustaining 42 trillion calculations per second.
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Lenovo plans to issue 5,000 leather-bound laptops, each individually numbered, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the ThinkPad line. Price: $5,000.
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IBM has released a biometric Thinkpad - the T42 laptop incorporates a fingerprint sensor for managing passwords and controlling access to sensitive documents and data.
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Get up close and personal with the curiously '80s-stylings of the Fujitsu UMPC
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Today, notebook computers are being used in an increasing number of applications in both consumer and commercial environments.  This paper  discusses the technologies necessary to meet the demands of these applications and what Fujitsu is doing to meet the varied display requirements of its customers.
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IBM has introduced its first ThinkPad with an integrated fingerprint reader. The laptop is expected to offer unmatched levels of data protection, as it functions as an embedded security subsystem, eliminating the need for configuring passwords.
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Sensing an opportunity in the fast-growing consumer notebook market, Lenovo on Thursday is expected to launch a new line of consumer laptops with the IdeaPad moniker.Targeted at gamers and home users, IdeaPad adds a low-price line of laptops to complement the company&#39;s existing ThinkPad notebook line, targeted primarily at business users. The company will first introduce three IdeaPad notebooks in different sizes, including an ultraportable laptop that the company will ship in the end of March.The IdeaPad U110 ultraportable notebook comes with an 11-inch screen and weighs only 2.3 pounds (1.04 kilograms), according to Lenovo.Based on Intel processors, the ultraportable will ship with either hard disk drives or flash-based solid state drives, said Craig Merrigan, Lenovo&#39;s vice president of global consumer marketing. To add ruggedness, the laptop has a shock sensor that detects falls and protects the hard drive data from any potential damage. The feature, called the Active Protection system, is already available on the company&#39;s ThinkPad laptops.Lenovo didn&#39;t comment on pricing for the ultraportable laptop.The company also announced the IdeaPad Y710 laptop, targeted at gamers, and IdeaPad Y510 laptop, targeted as a desktop replacement for home users. With colorful front bases in textured finishes, the laptops are equipped with expressive designs oriented to personalities and lifestyles, Merrigan said.The IdeaPad Y710 comes with a set of controls, including macro buttons and a control to enhance PC performance to optimize gaming on laptops. A slider control allows gamers to overclock the CPU to maximize laptop performance, Merrigan said. Starting at $1,199, the laptop includes a 17-inch screen and is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, an ATI graphics card, wireless networking, and an optional Blu-ray Disc drive. It can support hard drives up to 500GB.The IdeaPad Y510 notebook, with a 15.4-inch screen, is targeted at home users. Starting at $799, it comes with Intel Core 2 Duo processors with integrated graphics, wireless networking an integrated camera and a DVD/DVR optical drive. Including a battery, the laptop weighs 6.4 pounds (2.9 kilograms). It can support hard drives up to 250GB.The Y710 and Y510 have four speakers and a subwoofer apiece, and an inductive touch surface between the keyboard and screen that lights up multimedia controls based on context, Merrigan said. If movies are playing, it will light up movie controls, and if audio is playing, users can control equalizers using the touch surface.Equipped with 1.3-megapixel cameras, the laptops have facial recognition technology that makes a face a user&#39;s password, Merrigan said. Once a user sits in front of a computer, the computer recognizes the face and logs in a user. While consumers are not concerned about that high level of security, it may be useful to keep track of what kids are doing, Merrigan said.Both laptops will ship by the end of January and include Microsoft&#39;s Vista operating system. The laptops will initially launch in the U.S., France, Russia, South Africa, India, Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, China, Philippines, and Singapore, according to Lenovo. It will be available at online retailers and in stores.The announcements come ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas between January 7 and 10, where the laptops will be on display.Lenovo is trying to establish its own identity after&#160;acquiring IBM&#39;s PC business&#160;in 2004. Late last year it&#160;established its first &quot;Think&quot; line of workstations, and with the IdeaPad line, it is trying to get a bigger share of the consumer notebook market. The company is&#160;in fierce competition with Acer&#160;in the global PC market, according to surveys from Gartner and IDC.The company is also planning an ultramobile device based on&#160;Intel&#39;s Menlow platform, though Merrigan wouldn&#39;t comment on it. The ultramobile device will be on display at Intel&#39;s booth in CES.
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IBM has added biometric security to its ThinkPad notebook line, claiming the technology is now ready for prime time. IBM has added a fingerprint scanner to its T42 ThinkPad
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The fingerprint scanner on the new IBM ThinkPads is a discreet swipe sensor built into the palm rest. It lets users log in to Windows using their fingerprint or replace the ThinkPad&#39;s existing
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There are smart moves, and there are stupid moves. For some reason, IBM is selling ThinkPad, the best business notebook brand name, to some Far East discount outfit. That can't be a smart move. As a nonsmart counter-move, I figured I'd better break down and buy one of the darn things before none were left. So I did.
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IBM Corp. on Wednesday said it has developed the world&#39;s fastest computer - a 16,000-processor version of its BlueGene/L supercomputer.
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(InfoWorld) - Lenovo Group has signed a five-year deal with IBMÂ to provide services and support to its customers. The deal, outlined in a filing with the Hong Kong stock exchange Tuesday, could be worth up to $245 million for IBM over the term of the contract. Lenovo plans to expand the services it offers customers with the addition of "fee-based technical support, installation, deployment and other PC-related services," the filing said. Lenovo did not reveal when the new services will be introduced, but they are likely to come soon: the company expects to make payments to IBM under this deal during its current financial year, which ends next month. In an e-mail statement, Lenovo spokeswoman Angela Lee declined to offer details of the new services, but said "many" of them are intended for consumers and small-business users -- markets that Lenovo is keen to crack outside China, and particularly in the U.S. After considering several service providers, Lenovo chose to outsource these functions to IBM, which is one of the company's largest investors, because the company has an established worldwide services organization and an existing business relationship with Lenovo. Lenovo expects the deal to generate payments to IBM of $15 million during its current 2006-2007 fiscal year, which ends March 31.That amount is expected to rise to $35 million during the company's next fiscal year, 2007-2008, and $45 million during 2008-2009. These payments may increase further to $50 million annually during the 2009-2010, 2010-2011, and 2011-2012 fiscal years, Lenovo said in the filing.
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InfoWorld - IBM researchers are counting on a 40-year-old technology to keep modern, state-of-the-art datacenters running cool and allow companies to squeeze more computing power from the electricity they consume.
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A look back at where hard drives have been--and where they're going.