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Lenovo Intros the Monstrous ThinkPad W700

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the generator-crushing dept.

Engadget recently got their hands on an early delivery of Lenovo's new powerhouse of a laptop, the W700. Aimed at graphic artists and photographers, this beast is designed to really pack a punch. No word on how much for the extra fusion generator to power it for longer than 20 minutes. "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."

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  1. Yes but.... by TechnoBunny · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...can it run Vista/Linux/?

  2. Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple needs to step up and try to match this.

    1. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by daveime · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, with something shiny costing at least $10,000, preferably with a cup holder for the Starbucks Latte.

    2. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 5, Funny

      ... and a bluetooth buttplug. Don't mod me down, you were all thinking the same.

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    3. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by muffen · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, with something shiny costing at least $10,000, preferably with a cup holder for the Starbucks Latte.

      ... but you need Apple's permission to put the Latte there.

    4. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      ...you were thinking of buttplugs?! :-O

    5. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by paanta · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...and even if they give you permission, they may remotely disable your latte if it violates your coffee shop's TOS.

    6. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by knight24k · · Score: 4, Funny

      I thought all computers came with a cup holder. I know mine keeps retracting at the most inconvenient times spilling coffee all over the place.

    7. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

      but is it really nice enough to cut into the 17" MacBook Pro market?

      With quad-core, a 1gig video card and Wacom tablet built-in?

      Are you serious? This thing will be have bits of MacBook Pro in its stool.

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    8. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by MBCook · · Score: 4, Funny

      My current MacBook Pro doesn't have a cup holder. They haven't for YEARS.

      It does have a potato chip slot, but it only holds one at a time and it seems to make the guys at the local genius bar mad when I use it.

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    9. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I think Vista came with something like this when it first came out. Unfortunately, the UAC kept asking for permission to defile your anus. After that it kept asking "was it good for you?"

      Damn insecure software.

    10. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, you know what they say about men with big hands ...

      Big gloves.

    11. Re:Apple needs to step up and try to match this. by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, you know what they say about men with big hands ...

      "You must acquit"?

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  3. Discrimination by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Wacom tablet is on the right of the trackpad, a very inconvenient place for us left-handers. Just another example example of the man trying to keeps us down.

    1. Re:Discrimination by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It really should be on the left, as it's designed for creative types.

    2. Re:Discrimination by tehcyder · · Score: 4, Funny

      The Wacom tablet is on the right of the trackpad, a very inconvenient place for us left-handers. Just another example example of the man trying to keeps us down.

      Just turn the machine through 180 degrees, and viola! the tablet is on the left hand side instead. Some further modifications may be needed, of course.

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    3. Re:Discrimination by Zebedeu · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm skeptical that turning this laptop by 180 degrees will turn it into a viola.

  4. Slashdot would like to thank by Evildonald · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot would like to thank our sponsors, Engadget.

  5. Laptop market trends by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I predict that by the end of this year Thinkpads will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.

  6. In other news... by lbschenkel · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, TSA agents are salivating of anticipation.

  7. Re:Bundled extras? by RMH101 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was, until someone sued them for back trauma after lifing one. It's now called a Non Tethered Personal Workstation

  8. The first laptop for left-handers! by argent · · Score: 3, Funny

    Left-handed users everywhere are cheering the W700, with its digitizer thoughtfully placed on the right so they won't inadvertently jog it when using the trackpad. "It might make more sense to turn the entire area in front of the keyboard into a trackpad/digitizer with software control," said Sandy Sinister of the Southpaw Liberation Army, "but instead they struck a blow for the cause! We're buying ten for our new HQ at Undisclosed Location."

  9. Re:[spot the pun] by urcreepyneighbor · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's nothing sinister.

    sinister

    Etymology : From Latin sinister ("left hand") via Old French Sinistra ("left"), Middle English Sinistre ("unlucky").

    As a Lefty, I'd like to say: get some new material. ;)

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  10. Apple has to do this for your own good by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are disabling your latte due to a bug in Java. Ewwwww

  11. Re:build quality by Bovarchist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, but can you bulls-eye womp rats in your T61?

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