14 DAY TRIAL // The ThinkPad series of notebooks is one of the most successful lines of products ever built in the computer industry where new hardware parts are constantly coming and going as technology advances and manufacturing companies are adjusting their products after the market's and customers' demands. For a long time the ThinkPad was a line of products registered and owned by IBM but when the big blue company decided to dispense of its mobile computing business and sell it to the Chinese computer manufacturing company Lenovo, the ThinkPad line went with the sold business.
So, this year Lenovo and not IBM celebrates the 15th anniversary of the ThinkPad mobile computing platform with a special product offered under a limited edition and coming with some extravagant features like a ThinkPad Reserve Notebook. "The ThinkPad Reserve Edition was designed for the world's most accomplished professionals, so it delivers the best ownership experience available. It combines expert personalized service, exquisite design and materials, and superior technology to surpass any notebook PC available today," said Craig Merrigan, vice president of Branding and Strategy at Lenovo, who was cited by the news site xbitlabs. The ThinkPad Reserve comes as a thin and lightweight notebook and it is based on Intel mobile computing technology, the Centrino Pro platform. Coming equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 central processing unit running at a standard clock speed of 2.2GHz and having 4MB of second cache memory, the new ThinkPad Reserve also features 2GB of DDR2 random access memory coupled with a 160GB hard disk drive.
On the operating system department, the Lenovo ThinkPad Reserve laptop comes with Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate installed and like all high end mobile solutions it also features a wireless card compliant with the latest 802.11a/b/g/draft-n standard as well as Bluetooth technology and 3G connectivity. Apart from the integrated hardware components, Lenovo ships the ThinkPad Reserve with an external DVD burner supporting the latest optical disc formats as well as an external 80Gb hard disk drive and advanced security options. According to the manufacturing company the anniversary edition of the ThinkPad will operate up to seven hours on a single battery charge.
While the hardware components of the new laptop are aiming at the high end of the available offerings, the hand stitched leather coverings as well as the non stop, around the clock technical support is what makes the Reserve edition laptop special. Unlike the rest of the ThinkPad line of products, which come with conservative black designs, the Reserve edition breaks all the rules, but that exclusive look and technical support come at a high price as the new Lenovo high end laptop is priced at a much more steep level than comparative machines and even high end gaming notebooks. The ThinkPad Reserve is coming with a price tag of $5,000, including a 36-month Executive Support Staff service.