“No matter what IBM says, it’ll always be a ThinkPad to me.”
IBM sold the WorkPad z50 for $999 in March 1999, with a 131MHz MIPS chip and Windows CE. It was dead by February 2000, and he bought his for $270. It had a 95 percent ThinkPad keyboard on a laptop that ran almost nothing. IBM built a great keyboard and bolted it to Microsoft’s worst operating system.