On sale from Lenovo, the ThinkPad W700ds rich featured laptop computer

I covered scarcely only niche laptop computers. Now the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds caugh my eye with it's feature and the price cut. On Lenovo shop website we can find the above mentioned Thinklad Lenovo laptop computer on sale with a $2,869 price tag down from $3,583. This laptop comes with a 17-inch primary screen (1920-by-1200-pixel WUXGA 400NIT TFT) and a second 10.6-inch WXGA+ TFT retractable screen that can tilt up to 30 degrees. The primary screen features an optional 400-nit WUXGA display which provides up to twice the brightness of earlier ThinkPad mobile workstations. The primary screen’s 72 percent wide color gamut enables more than 50 percent greater color intensity for better color accuracy.
The laptop is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor T9400 (2.53GHz 1066MHz 6MBL2) with 2 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1067MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM). Upgradable tu 8 GB.
System graphics is powered by a dedicated NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M 48-core CUDA parallel computing processor 512MB.
The laptop’s options include an integrated color calibrator that adjusts the screen’s color, a built-in Wacom digitizer tablet, dual integrated hard drives, up to 960 gigabytes of total storage, a Blu-ray player, a seven-in-one multimedia reader and five U.S.B. ports. The 700ds also features Wi-Fi as well as optional WiMax, dual fans for the central processing unit and the graphics processor, and an optional fingerprint reader.The ThinkPad W700DS laptop computer / mobile workstation also comes with an optional DVD burner/player. The batery is 9 cell Li-Ion type.
Security features include an optional fingerprint reader, a smartcard reader and hard drives with full-disk encryption.
The company says it is aimed at oil and gas explorers, photographers, designers and other laptop computer users who require high performance.
"In a landscape where thin, light, and compact notebooks are becoming the norm, Lenovo's ThinkPad w700ds is a behemoth --but with good reason. This is quite possibly the ultimate notebook for graphics professionals and photographers." - PC World, January 2009 at CES show in Vegas.
"Unfortunately, the W700ds also dwarfs the competition in size, measuring a beefy 2.2 inches thick and weighing 11.1 pounds. But performance follows suit, with a choice of Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processors, up to 8GB of RAM, and even the option for dual hard drives in a RAID array, providing up to 960GB of total storage." - Digital Trends, January 2009


'For a laptop this big, the touchpad area is a bit small. Dedicated left/scroll/right buttons flank the top of the touchpad area, with the standard left and right click only residing beneath. Both button arrays have a soft click feel that's ideal for all-day use (try using a computer with hard, clicky buttons for more than ten minutes and you'll understand what we're talking about). With lots space south of the keyboard that typically goes unused on larger notebooks to work with, Lenovo's designers opted to integrate a small digitizer into the W700 as well. The 3x5 inch tablet area provides a nicely sized work area: users coming from larger tablet spaces will find it cramped, but resolution is decent and moreover, having a digitizer that you don't have to pack along separate from your workstation will be a welcomed addition for many users. After a little more time with the tablet, I've adapted to its size quite well. The idea of integrating a digitizer into a graphics-focused machine is an excellent one that I'm betting will find acceptance among photographers, graphic designers, CAD techs, and architects – all key markets for this niche focused machine. With a screen this size, we weren't expecting much in terms of battery longevity – though the question of how often you'll be taking this notebook away from a desk, and thus away from a power outlet, is a fair one. Some light web browsing, word processing, and photo editing with the screen at a still relatively bright half power yielded 2 hours, 23 minutes of use time before the first battery warning advised that it was time to reconnect to the grid. For a business notebook, we'd admittedly be disappointed by this performance, but for a behemoth like the W700, two-plus hours of unconnected computing isn't bad at all. For a machine with this much power, getting hot is almost a given. And that's where the W700 surprises: even under the heaviest graphics loads we could throw at it, chances are you'll find the weight of the Lenovo on your lap unbearable long before you'll be offended by how much heat it's giving off." - Excerpts from a thorough and very useful review from notebookreview dot com