> Thanks Bill and Jane....are they the same size?
I'm not Bill or Jane, but the 240X has a much smaller screen (and marginally
less weight). If the X2x series was available for $300 it would be the
clear winner over the 240X:-)
The machine was a contemporary of the 570, and designed to compete with the
Toshiba Libretto. The introduction of the 570 and 240 series was a tricky
business decision, in that the natural competitor for the former was the 600
series - which IBM kept producing - and the natural competitor for the
latter was the former.
BTW, Deborah Dell's nice book "Thinkpad: a different shade of blue" is
widely available remaindered for under $2, and discusses many of the issues
we're been touching on here (including evolution of the line through the
570, and distinctions between subnotebooks and "ultraportables", IBM's
original term for thin-and-lights).
- David R.
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