ThinkPad Ultrabay 2000

Advantages: Lightweight, protable, good for all business type applications
Disadvantages: poor stock specification, gets a little warm on your legs!

...I purchased my Thinkpad T20 second hand for around £300. For this money, I got the original specification machine fitted with a CDRW/DVD drive, which is an optional extra for the later models. With the ultrabay 2000, it is possible to use a range of hardware, without having to re-boot the system. Optical drives, hard disk drives and batteries are some of the possibilities to name a few. These all work at lightning speed and are so simple to change between. The lightweight design, topped good performance are impressive. The screen is 13.3 inches and is a good size and resolution for a small laptop. It comes with all the ports for network, modem, parallel and com ports, 2 PCMCIA slots and a singe USB slot. It also has a mouse and external monitor port, Infra-red port, built in speakers of a good quality for a laptop and line in... Read review

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Advantages: Very economic, very smart, well built, very capable
Disadvantages: Ageing now, limited processing power, no USB2 or inbuilt wifi

...your T20 up to date automatically. For a computer that's now six years old, it's still supported as well as their latest model. What's bad about the T20? Obviously you have to be realistic about its abilities - although it was bleeding edge in 2000, you wouldn't load Doom 3 on it now. It's still a perky machine running office apps and browsing the web, and video isn't too much of a problem, but get into any more processor/graphics intensive stuff and it will struggle. There are also a few other omissions in comparison to modern machines - although it has one USB1 port, it's not the faster, Ipod friendly USB2 version. It also has no built-in wireless BUT both of these things can be added via a PC Card. In fact there's little if anything in the way of peripherals that can't be added on either in PC Card or Ultrabay form. And while we... Read review

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Advantages: The most flexible and powerfull laptop out there
Disadvantages: the price

...: Security AssetCare features: Asset ID Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) llll Security features: Hard disk drive password Power-on password Supervisor password IBM Security Slot IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0 VPD support: Wireless: Intel Wi-Fi wireless and Bluetooth Security: Software l Tested operating systems: IBM OS/2 Warp Convenience Package, Microsoft Windows 98 Gold, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows Millennium, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, IBM OS/2 Warp 4 ll Operating system provided: Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Communication/networking applications: Access Support; Access ThinkPad; ConfigSafe; IBM Access Connections; IBM Update Connector Device drivers/utilities: PC Doctor Diagnostics; Rapid Restore PC Multimedia applications... Read review

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