New Laptop!

My new work laptop was ready to be picked up the week before Christmas, and this week I finally got the time to move over from my old to this new and faster computer. My old computer was an IBM branded ThinkPad (pre-Lenovo) T60. And my new computer is a Lenovo ThinkPad X200. The old was the standard laptop-size, and the new is an ultraportable. And I really like it being this small. With the smallest battery it is only 1,36kg compared to almost 3kg on the T60. Being a consultant I ALWAYS have my computer with me.

The biggest change besides the size is the fact that this is a Lenovo ThinkPad. My old one was IBM branded. It has smaller screen, so I’ll see more scrolling on the web. You can see images of the two laptops on the side - the size isn't correct, but you see that the ThinkPad design hasn't changed. On the T60 have I been running Windows 7 beta(build 7100) since May, so it was time to move the final edition. I am currently running the Ultimate version, but I have license key for the Pro-edition – so I guess I’ll be downgrading soon before the activation limitations kicks inn.

I now have all the applications ready (both installed, but also for the next refresh (downgrade). So it will be fast getting it up2speed. I’ll be replacing the 150GB shipped from the factory with a separately ordered 300GB. Maybe it sounds a bit on the heavy side, but do you remember how large your first hard drive was? I think the 386 IBM from the nineties had 100mb… It was before the Internet, before CD-rom was standard, when you installed DOS before you installed Windows – and Windows was shipped on floppy disks. The X200 doesn’t have a DVD-player (it is in the ultrabase docking) – when will “not having” DVD-player in computers be standard? When will we get a non-optical medium as the default backup/distribution handler?