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IBM today announced new models of its flagship ThinkPad T Series notebook computers, including models with the first 15-inch displays for the series -- a new form factor complemented by award-winning ThinkVantage Technologies in wireless, security and PC management.

Optimized for performance and portability, these new 15-inch models provide increased flexibility and comfort with larger, brighter and higher resolution screens. Select models of the 15-inch ThinkPad T42 and T42p come with "Flexview" technology, offering 170-degree viewing angles in all directions.

"IBM is committed to providing customers with the best computing experience possible," said Bob Galush, vice president, product marketing, IBM Personal Computing Division. "Customer feedback indicates that a larger screen would be ideal for engineers, students and mobile workers of all kinds. Now, IBM's ThinkPad T42 and T42p notebook computers will offer industry-leading battery life in a thin and light package with a desktop-PC-sized screen. Together with IBM ThinkVantage Technologies, such as the new Rescue and Recovery with Rapid Restore, these models take ThinkPad to a whole new level of mobility."

Available in 14 and 15-inch screen models, the ThinkPad T42 and T42p are ideal machines for mobile users in need of a lightweight notebook with extensive functionality. Models of the ThinkPad T42 and T42p will be available with Intel's new mobile Pentium M processors, improving mobile performance and battery life. The new ThinkPad T42 and T42p will be available with Intel Pentium M Processor 735, 745, and 755 technology featuring 2 MB of L2 cache, as well as the Intel Pentium M 1.5 GHz processor with 1 MB of L2 cache.

Combining the mobility of a ThinkPad notebook with high-speed graphic performance, the ThinkPad T42p mobile workstations offer a robust graphics capacity, raw processing power and long battery life. With the new 15-inch enlarged screen size, the T42p is the ideal solution for displaying detailed designs, dramatic digital content and multimedia projects and high-powered engineering applications -- in the office or on the road. An extensive independent software vendor testing and certification process verifies that ThinkPad mobile workstations can run some of the most demanding, graphics-intensive workstation applications.

Select models of the ThinkPad T42p, the thinnest and lightest mobile workstation in the industry, will offer Intel's Pentium M Processor 745 or 755, ATI Mobility FireGL T2 Graphics with OpenGL support, "Flexview" technology, UXGA (1600 x 1200) resolution, 802.11 a/b/g and the entire portfolio of IBM ThinkVantage Technologies. These include IBM's Embedded Security Subsystem, an integrated security chip and downloadable software to protect company's data, secure passwords and guard against unauthorized user access.

The ThinkPad T42 and T42p come equipped with a variety of IBM ThinkVantage Technologies that improve security, provide choice and ease-of-use in wireless capabilities, and simplify PC management for IT staff. IBM Rescue and Recovery with Rapid Restore provides a set of self-recovery tools to help users diagnose, get help and recover from a software crash, even if the primary operating system will not boot. This one-button solution helps with everything from easy system backup and the restoration of a corrupted or deleted file, to recovery from a complete software failure.

Because today's mobile systems are at a continual risk of being dropped and damaged, IBM is offering the Active Protection System on the ThinkPad T42 and T42p to help protect user's data. Similar to the technology used in automobiles to deploy airbags, the Active Protection System uses a microchip on the system board to detect system acceleration (such as in a fall) and responds by temporarily parking the drive's read/write head. This rapid response can help prevent hard drive crashes that occur in some falls, helping to prevent total data loss and ultimately reduce downtime.

Designed with mobile users in mind, the new ThinkPad T42 and T42p notebook computers feature high-performance wireless networking with integrated wireless, including Intel's 802.11 b/g wireless on select models. Included on both new models is IBM Access Connections 3.0, a software solution that saves users' wireless and wired network settings and simplifies the management of multiple connectivity environments.