IBM ThinkPad T40

IBM = the king of notebooks – As the onset of Intel Core processor based notebooks occurs, a lot of the older Pentium M based notebooks are flooding the used market, and a good quality piece of machinery can be purchased nowadays for a budget price. One such notebook has to be the IBM T40. I have had one bought second hand for over a year now and testify to its sturdy… Read more

construction quality, capable processing speed and excellent battery life. It's typical of the early "Centrino" notebooks and not designed for gaming, given its 32MB ATi based graphics card. But business users who would have spent upwards of 3 or 4 thousand dollars back in 2003 would not have bought it for the graphics power. It's light, plays DVDs very well, and is overall a fantastic example of why IBM (now Lenovo) have such a reputation of building great quality durable notebooks. On eBay you can pick up T4x series notebooks for under $800, and it's well worth considering these instead of the lowest end notebooks that may be available new. Light, fast enough for general computing tasks