The Bottom Line
This is truly designed for mobile office professionals. Even with the fact most mobile users will want to upgrade the battery, RAM and hard drive, the cost is still worth it's weight or in this case lack of weight.
Pros
- 2.7 pounds
- File-recovery technology
- Full size keyboard
Cons
- No internal optical drive
- Base configuration battery gives 3.5 hrs
- Base model only has 20GB hard drive
Description
- Intel 1 GHz Ultra Low Voltage Pentium M processor
- 256MB of RAM
- 20GB Hard drive
- 12.1 XGA (1024x768)TFT LCD
- Intel Pro Wireless 2100 802.11b chip
- 26.8cm long x 21.1cm wide x 2.7cm thick
- Full size keyboard
- Rescue & Recovery with Rapid Restore feature
- Base price of $1499 (USD)
- Windows XP Pro Edition
Guide Review - IBM ThinkPad X40
The ThinkPad X40 will be the smallest laptop available at this time and for mobile users this provides them with a strong and incredibly portable work machine.
Mobile users will be pleased with the full size keyboard, that is usually the major complaint regarding laptops, especially ultraportables.
The downside is in order to get better battery life, more RAM and a bigger hard drive, mobile users will have to purchase upgrades, adding to the overall cost.
The addition of the Rapid Restore feature, which enables mobile users to access a protected area of the system when WinXP fails to load or crashes is a real benefit to mobile users as it will decrease their downtime and enable them to troubleshoot their laptop on their own.
