Among all the laptops produced over the last few decades, there is one which rises above the rest and which has retained an appeal long after its meager computing resources became obsolete. It’s the ...

IBM is experimenting anew with portable notebook designs that mimic one of its most famous and controversial products: the expanding Butterfly keyboard. Big Blue originally introduced the Butterfly on ...

RALEIGH, N.C.--IBM is experimenting anew with notebook designs that mimic one of its most famous and controversial designs: the expanding Butterfly keyboard. Big Blue originally introduced the ...

Closed, it looks pretty much like any other laptop manufactured in 1995. To be sure, it’s more compact than most—making it, in the parlance of the day, a subnotebook. But it’s still comically thick, ...

Because the 701C’s 640×480 LCD screen leaves something to be desired by modern standards, Buchka took his mod one step further and replaced it with the screen panel from an iPad 7, connected to the ...

Even among ThinkPads, which are nearly universally loved by hardware hackers and Linux tinkerers alike, the 701c is a particularly rare and desirable machine. Best known for it’s “butterfly” slide out ...

The early ThinkPad 'ThinkPad 701' released in 1995 housed an 11.5-inch keyboard in a 9.7-inch case. Technology editor Harry McCracken explains how it was housed and why it was designed like this. The ...

Meet the guy responsible for developing IBM's famous "butterfly keyboard." John Karidis, an IBM distinguished engineer, has what might be the coolest job at IBM's Personal Computing Division. Since ...

As I was researching this week’s story on how virtual, touch-screen keyboards may improve to the point where they challenge the dominance of physical keyboards, I got into an interesting side ...

Big Blue is marketing its latest ThinkPad notebook - the T30 - as a thin, light computing powerhouse. The machine has 55 patents and is fitted with Intel's new Pentium 4-M processor, ATI Technologies' ...