Tom's Hardware Guide has posted a review on the IBM ThinkPad A31p

Building a viable alternative to a powerful desktop workstation poses quite a challenge. In our article on the ATI Mobility Radeon, we looked at what we considered to be one of the first true desktop replacement PCs. Notebook manufacturers, not content with substituting desktop PCs with laptops, have invented a new category of notebook, which is now being referred to as the Workstation Replacement category of notebooks. To date, this category of notebook has had few contenders for the crown. However, we think that the impending release of the Intel Mobile Pentium 4 processor might change this scenario.

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