Rare Japanese Thinkpad S30 for sale (pics) *SOLD*

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synchromesh · #1 Post by **synchromesh** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:06 pm

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.

RUSH2112 · #2 Post by **RUSH2112** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:02 pm

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.

pianowizard · #3 Post by **pianowizard** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:06 pm

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

coolname1 · #4 Post by **coolname1** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:41 pm

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

pianowizard · #5 Post by **pianowizard** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:45 pm

384MB; see this page

Mofo Jones · #6 Post by **Mofo Jones** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:23 pm

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

boon · #7 Post by **boon** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:08 pm

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

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

Mofo Jones · #8 Post by **Mofo Jones** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:21 am

That does help. Thanks, boon!

pianowizard · #9 Post by **pianowizard** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:49 pm

Also, check out my favorite Thinkpad photos site:

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

The TP 235 is so much smaller!

#10 Post by **BillMorrow** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:39 am

i want it for my museum..

Mofo Jones · #11 Post by **Mofo Jones** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:03 am

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

#12 Post by **BillMorrow** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:42 am

nope..

Mofo Jones · #13 Post by **Mofo Jones** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:53 am

I was only kidding.

seeplus · #14 Post by **seeplus** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:56 pm

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!

pianowizard · #15 Post by **pianowizard** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 3:02 pm

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.

synchromesh · #16 Post by **synchromesh** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:49 pm

Update: sale pending.

#17 Post by **BillMorrow** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:09 am

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..!

Mofo Jones · #18 Post by **Mofo Jones** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:12 pm

synchromesh, did you end up selling the S30?

synchromesh · #19 Post by **synchromesh** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:12 pm

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

Rare Japanese Thinkpad S30 for sale (pics) SOLD

Rare Japanese Thinkpad S30 for sale (pics) SOLD

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