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With its perfect keyboard and splendidly pixelated active-matrix screen, IBM's ThinkPad has a well-deserved reputation as the best of breed in the notebook category. If you can afford one, that is. I happen to use a year-old ThinkPad 560x, which weighs a bantam 4.1 lbs. Despite its advanced age and relatively pedestrian configuration (I had to add extra RAM), it cost $2,200 new. Luckily for me, my employer paid...
...story, of how one day Redmond comes to visit and makes an offer. "It was like the Mob," recalls Mark Andreessen, the college kid who helped found the company and who, when the boys from Redmond visited Netscape in April 1995, sat there silently transcribing the meeting on his ThinkPad. "It was an offer you can't refuse" is how Andreessen characterized it. His notes, which he turned over to investigators, showed up last week in the Department of Justice's complaint...
...concert-quality sound system. He stares at the mega columns with the Apple logo cut into them, grimaces at their "Hitlerish" appearance, but decides it's too late to do anything about them. Then he sets to work on his slide-show presentation--run from an IBM ThinkPad. The software, thank heaven, is from his old company, NeXT...
...voice trails off "...to seek the truth in love..." He is silent for a moment. His brain has failed him. Then inspiration strikes. "Maybe I can pick it up from the Web." In a single motion, he swivels his chair 180[degrees] and makes fluid contact with his IBM Thinkpad...
...buzz BILL HOWARD, PC Magazine: "IBM has added a lot of flexibility to the ThinkPad 760. It has the best pointing device, the screen is among the best for its size and vivid color, and there's a modular bay for putting in a CD-ROM drive, a floppy drive or a second floppy...