T43 Great, great, great, grandfather...

[atlacatl]

It's amazing how ThinkPads haven't changed much throughout the years...

http://www.mobilepcmag.com/features/200 ... ook-3.html

A good product is a good product, I guess - Lets see how the new ThinkPad owners do...

[jdhurst]

I depends on your point of view, I suppose. I have use ThinkPads back to the 365 series (or thereabouts) when your ThinkPad came with Windows 3.1 (before August, 1995). I had a 600 once with Windows 95 and it "looked" close to today's T models. But the comparison ends there.

ThinkPads used to be heavy, have slow hard drives, batteries (NiMH) that were only good for 30 minutes after a few months, processors that were slow because there wasn't anything else, and deathly slow hard drives.

So to say (compared to my T with super fast hard drive, copious memory, bright monitor with high resolution, and a high speed mobile processor) that ThinkPads haven't changed much through the years is (in my opinion) to ignore all the advances. Looks aren't everything

Interesting article that you pointed to, however. ... JD Hurst

[atlacatl]

Well, duh...I should have said that the similarities are in the outside and the stile of the machine: they haven't changed much...The guts, of course have changed...Imagine a 4 pount monster machine as the new Ts and Xs are...

We obviously can't compare a chimp to a human, but we are both very similar - Yet different...

[beeblebrox]

IBM got very cheaply a 20 year-supplier-contract on excellent plastics stuff. Unfortunately the supplier produces only black raw material.

So there will be at least another 10 years of black notebooks until all the raw material is used up and they buy new stuff.

Reminds me of the good old Ford-T model ("...you can have any color as long it is black"). People went to other car manufacturers who offered great colors. Ford almost went bankrupt because Henry Ford refused to give in...

BTW: before the black Thinkpads and ThinkCentres, the official IBM color was WHITE.