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WHILE OTHER NOTEBOOKS are piling on the pounds, one computer maker remembers that notebooks were designed to be portable. IBM set the benchmark for the thinand-light notebook with its ThinkPad 560, which weighed less than five pounds but lacked room for a floppy and CD-ROM drive, both of which had to be added externally.
The ThinkPad 600 resembles its predecessor but incorporates a single slimline drive bay. Sure, this adds a bit of weight, but it increases the notebook's usefulness immensely. Although the system weighs in at about 5.6 pounds...