R50e, will Fingerprint reader be an option?

I already have a T43P for myself. However, the R50e would be an excellent inexpensive computer for my brother. He needs something to play online poker. Graphics are not really important for him. He only needs to be able to play adult online porn movies and poker. Checking email would also be nice.

Will the R50e ever come with fingerprint recognition like the T43 and some T42's?? Anybody have a thinkpad roadmap??

 

Karl, it would be nice if the R50e came with an updated Pentium M processor that supports DDR2. The price of DDR2 is almost half the price of DDR.

Good point myself. Fingerprint and DDR2 would make this thinkpad very desirable.

 

I know R52 supports fingerprint, but not sure about r50e !!!!

 

The only thing an R50e is good for is hitting someone on the head. Because it's hard and heavy.

 

Fingerprint reader is overrated.

 

Well, a fingerprint reader is more useful for certain business users like those which work with sensible data in goverment, bank or insurance domains where these devices are mostly demanded.

All in all for normal users it's more a gimmick and nothing more. You can use equally well software based password managers and the like which don't need any hardware based fingerprint reader. You can also for example embed those on an USB-stick if you need to organize and share your passwords among different computers.

However, if you really want one or think that you need a fingerprint reader, you can also use an external USB based one, or one that is embedded on an USB-stick etc. These are pretty common nowadays and also pretty cheap. - I partly use an external USB driven fingerprint reader, which uses a build in slide/strip sensor from AuthenTec instead of UPEK (Lenovo/IBM is using those with a sensor from UPEK). This one only cost 15€ and works pretty the same as the external USB ones from Lenovo/IBM. - But all in all I rarely have a need for it, since as said before, it's more a gimmick and I mostly can type in faster authentication passwords then let the fingerprint reader identify a fingerscan.

Further all web browsers and many third party software can remember and organize passwords for you equally good, so there is usually no real need for a fingerprint reader, if you don't work in one of those domains where it is additionally requested for security reasons.

 

Hey, that's not nice! (and its not that heavy).
And I think that the fingerprint reader is not an option for the R50e. All I know is that it's an option on the R52.

 

Oh, come on, I was just joking.