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Rare Japan-only Thinkpad S30 is great condition. It's in perfect working order, I just have no use for it so rather than watch it collect dust I'd prefer to sell it to a fellow Thinkpad fan who can put it to good use.

Here are the specs:

1. Pentium III mobile 600MHz
2. 256MB RAM
3. 40GB hard disk
4. 10.4in display, great condition, no scratches/dead pixels
5. Built-in sound, NIC (10/100), 2xUSB, 1xFirewire, 56k modem
6. 1 PCMCIA slot + 1 flash card reader slot
7. Battery that lasts about 1.5+ hours of average use + power brick
8. Japanese-English keyboard
9. Windows 2000 SP4

The system comes with a beautiful shiny "piano finish" screen cover. It does have a few minor scratches on it as it is hard to keep it in perfect shape but nothing major. Rest of the system is in good shape.

The machine comes with a Japanese-English keyboard that has a few extra Japanese keys which I would just ignore. The BIOS is in English so there is no need to learn Japanese to use this machine at all.

I'm looking for $500 shipped in USA or $525 shipped in Europe/Asia. At this point open to offers, but please be reasonable and don't offer me $350 or less, I know it's worth more than that. I figured I'd try it here before eBaying it.

Couple of pics:






Note: power supply is absent on pics but I have it and it's included.

I am really tempted, as I mentioned in your previous (pondering of selling) post, yet I cant bring myself to spend $500 on a P3 computer, no matter how nice and how rare. It should sell none the less though, because theres gotta be someone out there with some spare cash that is looking for a classic collectable TP.

I wish I could pretend that we're still in 2002, when laptops cost roughly $1 per MHz!

Hi, you know what's the max ram on it?

384MB; see this page

synchromesh, do you have any other pictures of the unit? I'd like to see better pictures of the screen and the keyboard. Thanks!

if you want to see a model of it, maybe this link will help:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:S30

That does help. Thanks, boon!

Also, check out my favorite Thinkpad photos site:

http://www.aichi.to/~thinkpad/tps30/

The TP 235 is so much smaller!

i want it for my museum..

Does that mean that if I buy it, I shouldn't use Bill as a go between?

nope..

I was only kidding.

Wow, that is one slick tp; looks like the grandfather of the X series. If it could handle a little more memory, I might be into it!

seeplus wrote:Wow, that is one slick tp; looks like the grandfather of the X series.

I think it coexisted with the X20. The S30 was a successor to the 240Z (which also had 10.4" XGA, built-in ethernet, and was 3.2 lbs), whereas the X20 combined features of the 240 series and the 570 series.

Update: sale pending.

the S30 thinkpad goes back to the inspiration for the original black thinkpad..
the "standard" japanese lunchbox..

http://www.thinkpads.com/genesis1.htm wrote:Sapper felt that the design should be clean, plain and elegant. His wooden prototype was based on the shoukadou bentou, the traditional, black-lacquered, Japanese lunch box. It was small and compact. Desk space is scarce in Japan, and, since security is an issue with notebooks, a computer the size of a bentou box could be locked in a filing
cabinet...

which is why i would like one for the "museum collection"..
too bad i am temporarily impecunious..
or i would outbid all 'y'all..

but i am in no real hurry..
next year..!

synchromesh, did you end up selling the S30?

Mofo Jones wrote:synchromesh, did you end up selling the S30?

Sorry, been out for a while. Yeah, it's sold and already reached its new owner in Europe. I miss it already