Five popular business laptops | ||||
![]() Justin Jaffe, senior associate editor | As performance improves and prices continue to go down, laptops increasingly replace desktop PCs at work. A laptop offers a number of advantages, especially portability. Even if your work doesn't call for much travel, a laptop allows you to take all of your data with you on a daily commute or down the hall for a presentation. Most of today's notebooks are just as capable as basic business-desktop PCs and require much less desk space. The best business laptops combine portability, performance, battery life, and integrated wireless networking. Here are five business laptops that CNET readers have deemed the best of the best.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X40 2386 (Pentium M 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD) |
| Review date | March 2, 2004 |
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Editors' rating (Editors' rating explained) |
Average |
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| Review summary | Business travelers who like to travel light should definitely consider IBM's sleek, new, full-featured powerhouse: the ThinkPad X40. |
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| Basic Specs | |
| Dimensions (WxDxH) | 10.6 in x 8.3 in x 1.1 in |
| Weight | 2.6 lbs |
| Processor | Intel Pentium M 1 GHz Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) |
| Cache Memory | 1 MB - L2 cache |
| RAM | 256 MB (installed) / 1.28 GB (max) - DDR SDRAM - 333 MHz - PC2700 |
| Hard Drive | 20 GB - 4200 rpm |
| Optical Storage | None |
| Graphics Controller | Intel Extreme Graphics 2 |
| Networking | Network adapter - Ethernet , - IEEE 802.11b , - Gigabit Ethernet , - Fast Ethernet |
| Battery | Lithium ion |
| OS Provided | Microsoft Windows XP Professional |
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| Product name | Lenovo ThinkPad X40 2386 (Pentium M 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD) |
| Full specifications | Full specifications |
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