The ThinkPad T61 is a premium, business-class laptop computer manufactured originally by IBM, which sold the rights to Lenovo.[1] A ThinkPad, it was part of the T series, and was first manufactured in 2006. It was offered as a modular platform, allowing buyers to customize most all of its major features, including processor speed, amount of RAM and hard disk storage, screen size and resolution, quality and speed of video card, and additional capabilities such as a fingerprint reader, smart card reader, and Zip drive.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The T61 came with the Windows Vista operating system.