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IBM's T-Series Notebooks Get Multimedia Boost

IBM ThinkPad T43 Previewed

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 04/04/2005 | 11:59 PM ]

TrustedReviews has taken a brief look at IBM ThinkPad T43 notebook. This mobile PC is the latest addition to the ThinkPad T-family notebooks from IBM, which is positioned mainly for business users. But given that the machine is based on the latest incarnation of Intel Centrino mobile platform code-named Sonoma, it supports latest processors, a bunch of multimedia features as well as IBM’s premier technologies to protect the computer from unauthorized access and against HDD crash.

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“The T43 that I’m looking at is equipped with a 1.86GHz Intel Pentium M CPU, but the range encompasses chips from 1.60GHz all the way up to 2.13GHz. Another feature of Sonoma is support for DDR2 memory, and IBM has equipped the T43 with 533MHz DDR2 memory - quantity ranges from 256MB (woefully inadequate) all the way up to 2GB. One part of the Sonoma feature set that IBM has chosen not to implement is support for SATA hard disks. The model that I’m using is equipped with a 40GB EIDE drive - the options include 30 and 40GB 4,200rpm units, 40, 60, 80 and 100GB 5,400rpm drives or a 60GB 7,200rpm unit,” writes TrustedReviews web-site.