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Continuing the tradition of laudable, rock-solid laptops, IBM's R Series of ThinkPad notebooks combines essential portable computer function with or without trimmings and at an attractive entry price.
The basic R30 models use an aptly powerful 900MHz Celeron processor, and at the high end of the line, a scrumptious 1.133GHz Mobile Intel Pentium III. R's contain 64 (upgradeable) - 256 Megs of RAM, a 10 - 40GB hard drive, a built-in modem and Ethernet adapter. In layman's terms, the R Series ThinkPad is a beautiful thing. It can be as slick and speedy as the user can afford, but even the bare-bones model (2656-19U) is still pretty impressive. It is, after all, intelligently designed for frequently mobile users who want basic computing essentials and not necessarily the flash and stature of, say, an over-achieving Sony VIAO laptop / trans-molecular combobulator; just good power, comfortable form factor and a biggish display screen (13.3" - 14.1" with 1024x768 resolution).
Another impressive feature of the R Series is the "UltraBay Plus," a hardware-docking slot that allows you to swap certain components depending on the task de jour. Or, in other words again, a CD-Read/Writer can be swapped for a DVD-ROM drive, an extra/external hard drive, a numeric keypad, a Zip drive or an extra battery pack as needed, when needed, if needed, which makes the ThinkPad R Series as versatile as the next over-achiever, minus the unessential combobulated bulk.
Reviewed: Mar. 14, 2002
Type: Computer, MobilityTech
From: IBM
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