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IBM Delivers Ultralight Biometric Thinkpad X41At 2.7 pounds, the new ultralight IBM ThinkPad X41 can float like a feather, but it won't let user issues sting you like a bee. The new business-geared X41 is the lightest laptop in the IBM lineup to feature a built-in fingerprint reader.If you listen to the IT folks around the water cooler, you may hear them going giddy over these so-called biometric features. Fingerprint readers free laptop users from passwords and repetitive sign-ins. That equals fewer panic calls to the business helpdesk, and that silence is music to the ears of any IT staffer. IBM also unveiled new Thinkpad software that will reduce headaches for uses and IT pros alike. The application automatically checks for updates for a notebook's software and downloads drivers, BIOS upgrades, and other key improvements. The service and repair package is completed when combined with Rescue and Recovery, the ThinkVantage tool that helps systems recover from crashes. IT geeks also fantasize about what's underneath the X41's chassis. It features the hottest mobile processing technology: an Intel Pentium M and Intel 915GM chipset with 400MHz front side bus. The graphics card, an Intel Graphics media Accelerator 900, can get the heart racing. The new ThinkPad is a stallion, too, that can last for hours on the road. It features the ThinkPad Power Manager, a technology that blesses users with control over their processor and fan speeds - two aspects of mobile computing that matter most to a battery's life. If users want to dock this notebook, they can use the X4 UltraBase Dock. This expansion only adds slightly more than 1 pound to the mix, but brings additional batteries, a CD or DVD optical drive, and more room for data storage. By Matthew Brodsky Friday, May 06, 2005 |
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