New
Delhi: IBM India today announced the availability
of its
entry level notebook, the IBM ThinkPad R40e priced at
Rs. 49,990. Targeting the small and medium businesses
and the home segment, the IBM ThinkPad R40e offers customers
a complete mobile computing experience.
Unlike
other notebooks available in the market at this price
point,
the IBM ThinkPad R40e is a fully configured notebook with
optimum memory, hard disk capacity, cache and ready to
use the Windows operating system and a DVD ROM optical
drive.
The
new IBM ThinkPad R40e notebook, combined with the innovative
design provides value for money; and allows mobility and
flexibility at the workplace and at home. The ThinkPad
R40e weighs lighter at 2.67 kg and is equipped with the
latest ThinkVantage technologies, a set of software and
hardware tools, available only on IBM PCs, at no additional
cost. The function of these technology offerings is to
help users save date, time and
money.
Says
Sanjeev Menon, brand manager, mobile computing, personal
computing division, IBM India Limited, "The notebook
market is gaining rapid momentum. As pioneers in the PC
business, we understand customer requirements and believe
in giving customers a wholesome quality computing experience.
With this launch, we plan to reach out to markets beyond
the metro cities as well as the home PC user to make laptops
accessible to these segments. The ThinkPad is a brand
synonymous with technology, innovation, robustness and
reliability and this is exactly what we bring to our customers
with the launch of the ThinkPad R40e notebook."
The new notebooks
come with: Windows XP Home as operating system; a DVD
ROM optical drive; 256 MB memory which means there is
no need for further upgradations.
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