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Nam Pham writing over at Notebook Review has posted a review of the lightweight Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Notebook. 'The overall design of all Thinkpads never goes far from a black, squarish box. You can still see many similarities from the very first Thinkpad model made by IBM in 1992 in this R61. It's black inside and out, though the outside is a bit more like dark gray. There are absolutely no shiny bells and whistles on this notebook: It's pure business. Depending on your taste, you might call it dull or extremely sexy. I'm with the latter. The only thing on the outside lid is the IBM Thinkpad logo. Yes, although many received their Thinkpads with the new Lenovo logo, I got mine with the old IBM logo. I would have preferred either one.

On the inside, there is the classic Thinkpad keyboard, the touchpad and the red trackpoint. Then there is the fingerprint reader that did not exist when I got the notebook. How it got there, you will find out later on. Under the screen, there are the green status lights, showing you the status of wireless, numlock, caplock, accessing hard drive, power, battery indicator, external power, and sleep/hibernate. An interesting feature is that some of the lights shine through to the other side, so even when you close the lid, you can still tell if your notebook is on, sleeping, charging, etc.'

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