IBM ThinkPad T23

IBM ThinkPad T23 Review

by Carla Thornton

- WHAT'S HOT: Like its predecessor, the T22, the ThinkPad T23 offers a 14.1-inch screen with 1400 by 1050 resolution and weighs just 5.5 pounds (without the AC adapter)--a dynamite combination. When you swap out the internal DVD-ROM drive you get at this price for a hollow travel bezel ($20 extra from Compu-Lock), the T23 tips the scales at less than 5 pounds. The bay can hold any one of six other interchangeable devices, too, including a bundled floppy drive, an optional second battery, and an optional second hard drive. T series laptops include all legacy connections and great built-in sound with handy volume controls--rare features in two-spindle notebooks. The 48GB hard drive is the biggest we've seen in a laptop. Equipped with Intel's speedy mobile 1.13-GHz/733-MHz Pentium III-M processor and 256MB of RAM, the T23 pulled down a PC WorldBench 4 score of 105, fairly speedy for a laptop with that chip and running Windows 2000.