The IBM Thinkpad name was suggested by IBM employee Denny Wainwright. Denny came up with the name because he had a "THINK" notepad in his pocket.
It opens up the Lenovo ThinkVantage program, which supplies support options and updates and stuff. You can reassign it if you want.
The Lenovo Thinkpad T42 has a variety of features including two audio jacks, an 86 key keyboard, two memory slots, memory of up to 2GB and speeds of up to 4Mbps via the Infared system. One can find further information about the features that the Lenovo Thinkpad T42 has by visiting the official Lenovo website.
It should be possible, as long as you have 512 MB or more RAM installed (it supports up to 2 GB). You may have trouble finding drivers for some of the components, such as the wireless card.
These are post codes at the start up of a ThinkPad. Usually they indicate a problem with the unit. Think of them as troubleshooting Morse Code. Count the number of beeps - the number of beeps will correspond to a problem code on Lenovo's website or in your laptop owners manual. Usually they mean a memory chip has gone bad, a hard drive has died, or the system board has problems.
IBM made ThinkPad's T40, T41 and T42 which all had titanium cases, but I saw this last back in 2004. Apple made a PowerBook G4 up until 2006 with titanium case.
Samuel J. Palmisano is the IBM Chairman of the Board. He is up for re-election for a term of one year on April 28, 2009.
Harry came up with the name :)
Yes, they are great. They used to be IBM and still use the thinkpad and ideapad branding but IBM's manufacturing company bought them out. They have kept the quality up ever since. They are normally business machines but they do have home oriented ones too, I would suggest the ideapad z560. They are a little more expensive than toshiba or acer but the quality and construction is much better.
who first came up with the name email?
Michael Clifford came up with the name. :)
If it is just at a C: prompt after it powers up, that means Microsoft Windows has not been installed and all someone did was install a basic copy of DOS. This is usually what people do when selling someone a used laptop (like off eBay) - you don't get an operating system with it. You'll need to buy a copy of Microsoft Windows and install it on the system yourself, then download the proper ThinkPad specific drivers from Lenovo.com.
The lead singer for Avenged Sevenfold (M. Shadows) came up with the name.