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IBM ThinkPad R30 Review

by Carla Thornton

- WHAT'S HOT: Consider IBM's ThinkPad R30 to be a ThinkPad T23 you can afford. At 5.9 pounds (not including the AC adapter), the R30 weighs only one-third pound more than the notebooks in IBM's T23 line--and it offers the same roomy, high-resolution 14.1-inch screen. The R30 has a single modular bay on the right side to accommodate any one of a wide range of extra-cost devices, including a second hard drive, a Zip 250 drive, a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combination drive, and the 8X/4X/24X CD-RW drive our test unit came with. IBM recently added wireless readiness as an option across all of its notebook lines. Our R30 came with antennas and a built-in mini-PCI adapter card for Web surfing and checking e-mail wirelessly when an 802.11b Internet access point is nearby. The total tab--including our unit's CD-RW drive, a 1-GHz/700-MHz Pentium III processor, and Lotus SmartSuite application software--is a reasonable $1699.

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