This is a nice example of IBM’s rare ultraportable from the early 2000s. The S30 / iSeries was the true successor to the Thinkpad 240Z and is much harder to find.

It improved upon the 240 design by being slightly smaller, with a better CPU - the Pentium III 600Mhz, higher ram capacity of 256Mb and a better display - packing true colour into an XGA resolution.

It also benefited from a far more stylish design with this model’s Piano-black, glossy lid as a factory option.

The case style harks back to the iconic 701C with the keyboard being wider than the chassis.

I’ve owned this machine as part of my collection for many years and selling to simply slim down.

I’ve done a fresh UK install of Windows 2000 on the machine and reinstalled all the original drivers and wallpapers.

I’ve upgraded the original slow ‘spinning rust’ HDD to an 8Gb compact flash card, using a really decent adapter (shown in the pics).

The only issues I noticed in this machine are the battery doesn’t charge and the CMOS battery is dead. There is also one dead horizontal line on the display, which doesn’t affect the usability of the machine and you really don’t notice it, but it’s there and shown in the pics.

No power supply but virtually any 16VDC barrel power supply will work - the same as all thinkpads of this era.