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IBM last week introduced the ThinkPad A31p, the world's first mobile computer designed to meet the specific, high-performance needs of workstation users. The new notebook combines the mobility of a ThinkPad with the power of a workstation, affording users high-speed graphical performance with wireless technology, security and manageability capabilities.

The introduction of the A31p reaffirms IBM as a leader in innovation and secures its place in the forefront of the mobile workstation market. It offers users the freedom and flexibility to leave the workplace and create and design virtually whenever and wherever they want.

The powerful features of the ThinkPad A31p combined with IBM's reputation for quality, engineering and support give it a leadership position in the high-growth mobile workstation market.

Optimised for connectivity, the ThinkPad A31p offers a communications bay for flexible wireless and wired networking. Select models of the ThinkPad A Series, including the A31p, are the first IBM notebooks to have both 802.11b and Bluetooth integrated and running concurrently.

The ThinkPad A31p also comes standard with IBM's Embedded Security Subsystem (ESS), a comprehensive solution that combines both hardware and software. The cryptographic chip can enhance most other security solutions by encrypting and decrypting keys in hardware rather than main memory, where a Trojan horse virus can steal the keys. IBM's ESS enhances authentication solutions, encrypts files on the hard disk drive and eliminates the need for the key-fob used by many virtual private networks.

Additionally, the ThinkPad A31p is the only mobile workstation enabled for ImageUltra, IBM's signature image management solution, which can help integrate workstations into a network. ImageUltra helps successfully address the costs involved with managing PCs, including deploying, managing and upgrading a company's systems, making it easer for businesses to link PCs with the rest of their business infrastructure.

Taking advantage of the many years of knowledge gained from creating IntelliStation workstations, the ThinkPad A31p was designed by engineers using industry-standard design software for outstanding usability. IBM plans to have the ThinkPad A31p certified by at least 25 ISVs shortly after the workstation becomes available later this month.

The ThinkPad A31p features some of the most advanced technology available in the industry today, including Intel's new Mobile Pentium 4 Processor-M, double data rate (DDR) memory for robust functionality and ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 graphics technology that provides fast solutions for demanding 3D applications. These graphics come alive on IBM's unique 15-inch UXGA Flex View display, which provides up to 25-50 per cent greater brightness and twice the contrast of similar displays with viewing angles up to 170 degrees.

IBM ThinkPad continues to help lead the way in delivering enhancements, innovations and solutions that have shaped and defined the mobile computing industry. To date, more than 15 million ThinkPad notebooks have been shipped. Since the launch of the ThinkPad 700C in 1992, these acclaimed notebook computers have been lauded as design and engineering models, winning more than 850 industry awards. ThinkPad notebooks have been trusted for use in some of the world's most extreme settings, including space shuttle launches, altitudes more than 17,000 feet above sea level and on the open seas. 

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