Like your laptops to be over-achievers? Like, the really annoyingly
stacked variety of over-achiever? Enter Lenovo’s newest outrage — the
ThinkPad W700. Containing enough computational artillery to level a
small village, this for-creatives-only behemoth is designed for sheer
pixel pushing… and little else. The system packs in two features
aimed at graphic artists and photographers which are fairly unique to a
laptop: a built in Wacom digitizer just to the right of the trackpad,
and an on-board color calibrator. But what’s happening under the hood
you ask? Well for starters the 17-incher sports the first ever Intel
Quad Core Extreme CPU in a laptop (no word on speeds at this point) as
well as the first showing of NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 3700 graphics chipset
(with a hefty 1GB of memory on-board). The workstation also serves up
dual hard drive bays configurable as RAID 0 or 1 (SSD or traditional
disk, naturally), up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and an optional Blu-ray
burner. Of course, that’s fully kitted out — the W700 starts at $2,978 and moves skyward from there. Take a look at our hands-on below and see the beast for yourself.
Update: The kids over at Notebooks
dropped in some videos of the W700 including a brief look at the Wacom
digitizer in action with Photoshop. Check it after the break.
ref:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/12/lenovo-intros-the-monstrous-thinkpad-w700-and-we-get-our-hands/
