Let's See How Far We've Come

It's been about 15 years since I started working with laptops, and I started thinking about how far technology as come since ThinkPads I was setting up and servicing back in the early 90's and it's descendant, low-end, netbook of today:

	IBM ThinkPad 700 (1992)	Lenovo IdeaPad S10 (2008)	Percent Change
Processor	25MHz IBM 486 SLC	1.6GHz Intel Atom	+6,400%
Std. Memory	4MB	512MB	+1,280%
Hard Disk	80MB	80GB	+1,000%
Screen	9.5" monochrome, 640x480	10.2" color, 1024x600	infinite ;-)
Weight	7.5 lbs.	2.4 lbs.	-68%
List Price	$4,000	$429	-89%

Stats from Ken Polsson's Chronology of IBM Personal Computers and from Lenovo's S10 press release

Amazing stuff!