IBM's Sonoma-ish ThinkPad T43

By Peter Rojas

Hey, we did promise a lot of news today about Sonoma,
Intel's next-generation Centrino chipset, didn't we? IBM obviously had this one under development way before they sold their PC division to Lenovo, but you can add their new ThinkPad T43 to the growing list of Sonoma-powered laptops (other members of the Sonoma club:
Sony,
BenQ,
Dell,
Acer,
Samsung, and
Toshiba). You won't actually be able to buy it until March, but the specs on the T43 are almost tight enough to overcome any wariness you might have over the big changeover: it's got a 14.1-inch LCD screen, up to 2GB of DDR2 533MHz RAM, up to an 80GB hard drive, built-in biometric fingerprint scanner (for extra security), integrated 802.11a/b/g WiFi, and the option of using either Intel's Graphics Media Accelerator 900, ATI's RADEON X300, or ATI's Mobility FireGL V3200 graphics cards. And like its predecessor the T42, the T43 also weighs just 4.5 pounds and is a mere one inch thick.

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