IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad laptop celebrates twentieth anniversary

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It is Friday, twenty years ago that IBM are the first three ThinkPad laptops officially announced. ThinkPad notebooks, now by Lenovo, are still popular with business users and power users, among other things, by their firmness.

The first three ThinkPad laptops, the 300, 700 and 700C, were on 5 October 1992 by IBM revealed. The 700 series was at that time considered to be the laptoplijn with the most powerful processors, hard drives with the most capacity and the best screens. Especially the 700C made an impression with his, for that time, large colour-tft-screen with a diagonal of 10.4 inches. The 300C had the main feature is a long battery life of four to ten hours.

ModelCpuGewichtSchermPrijs

300
Intel 80386 SL
2.7 kg
The 9.5″, monochrome, 480×640
$1999,-, 80MB hdd

700
Intel 80486 SLC
2.9 kg
The 9.5″, monochrome, 480×640
$2750,-, 80MB hdd

700C
Intel 80486 SLC
3.4 kg
At 10.4″, 256 colors, 480×640
$4350,-, 120MB hdd

The Thinkpad 700 and 700C were as a characteristic novelty, the red trackpoint, which is nowadays still in the business laptops from Lenovo. The nipple between the h – and the g-key resulted in a saving of space and made that users get their hands on the keyboard could keep in place of a mouse or trackball.

Although the 300 – and 700-laptops the beginning of the ThinkPad line mark, they were not the first product under that name was developed. That was the 2521 the ThinkPad: a tablet with a stylus operated could be, and that in april 1992 was announced. The device came later, under the name of ThinkPad 700T on the market and turned the PenPoint operating system from Go Corporation. The name is derived from Think, the slogan that IBM about from the very beginning of its existence in 1920 conducted. IBM employee Denny Wainwright, introduced in 1991 to make the tablet Think combining it with Path, where he was inspired by the leather note pads on which the name, Think engraved and IBM are staff provided.

In 2004, Lenovo, the ThinkPad line from IBM. Still appear tablets under that name, of which the latest, the ThinkPad Tablet 2 is, that at the end of October with the introduction of Windows 8 appears. The last scion on laptopgebied is the ThinkPad Carbon X1. This is a thin, business ultrabook with a thickness of 18mm and a weight of 1.36 pounds. The Carbon X1 has a 14″display with a resolution of 1600×900 pixels, and a case of carbon.