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IBM Goes Ultra-Portable with X30 ThinkPad Laptop.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2002

By Jon Fortt, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 5--A week ago, IBM came out with the X30 ThinkPad laptop, the computing equivalent of a Kenyan marathon runner.

The X30 (starting at $2,600 with extra battery and wireless card) is lightweight at 3.6 pounds. With IBM power management technology built in, the X30 is likely to outlast its featherweight kin with eight hours of battery life.

The X30 is now the defining business laptop in a class called "ultra-portables," which means the laptops don't put a crick in your neck from carrying them. Ultra-portables tend to weigh a couple of pounds less than the typical laptop, and they don't have CD-ROM drives built in -- you have to add them later.

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