Hello.
The retail price for that ThinkPad was $2299 in January 2000.
That laptop was briefly reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle on
December 16, 1999:
"IBM ThinkPad i Series 1480...
...ThinkPad i Series, which includes machines for consumers (the 1400
series) and small-businesses (1500 series).
The model I tried out, the i Series 1480, is a great multimedia
machine, but it has a price and girth to match: It lists for $2,299,
weighs 7.7 pounds, and measures 12.9 inches wide, 10.6 inches deep and
1.7 inches high when closed -- by far the largest model covered in
this review.
Inside a sleek, jet-black case, you'll find a gorgeous 14.1-inch
active-matrix scene, backed by a 466- megahertz Mobile Celeron
processor, 64 megabytes of RAM and a 6.4- gigabyte hard drive. The
1480 also has a DVD-ROM drive, so you can watch movies with it, and an
S-video jack, so you can watch them on your TV or video monitor. (The
i Series 1460, with CD-ROM instead of DVD and a slightly slower
processor and smaller hard drive, is $2,099.)"
source:
Notebooks to Fill Anyone's Holiday List
Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle, December 16, 1999
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/12/16/BU93599.DTL
As mentioned in that article, the 1480 had the DVD-rom drive. The
1460 had a CD-rom drive. The model that you're asking about is the
1480 because type 2621-48 corresponds with the ThinkPad 1480 while typ
2621-46 was the 1460. These corresponding type numbers happen to be
listed on a memory dealer's web page:
"IBM Thinkpad...
Celeron, 1460 (2621-460)...
Celeron, 1480 (2621-480)"
http://www.shoplet.com/hardware/db/3019601.html
The same $2299 price, along with a list of what was included, may also
be seen in a message from retailer PC Mall, dated January 5, 2000:
"P C M A L L A D V A N T A G E --- January 5, 2000
...
IBM ThinkPad 1480 --- Only $2,299!
ThinkPad i Series design combines a high-performance Intel processor,
large, bright display, integrated modem and more. The 1480 model
includes the innovative ThinkLight for illuminating your keyboard,
while customizable Easy Launch buttons put control at your fingertips!
Features include Intel(r) Celeron(tm) Processor 466MHz 64MB RAM, 6.4GB
Hard Drive, DVD, 56Kbps Modem, 14.1" Active Display, Windows 98."
From: Yahoo Groups - Computer Specials mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/computer-specials-vmailings/message/463?source=1
Thus, the $2,299 price was not only the suggested retail price, but
also the actual price that retailers such as PC Mall sold that
ThinkPad for in January 2000.
As far as "extras" beyond what was specified, Thinkpads typically
didn't ship with a heck of lot of "extras" at that time. In addition
to the laptop and the charger, you would have received a user manual,
Win98 CDs, and recovery CDs. I did some checking on eBay and that's
all the seems to have been included when someone sold a similar
Thinkpad model currently for sale:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3452732004&category=48486
Basically, the same stuff was included when another comparable model
was sold a few weeks ago.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3448511548&category=48486
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