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Lenovo Intros the Monstrous ThinkPad W700
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."
This looks like it could collapse under its own weight if you pull it up from a side. It's a real shame that since Lenovo took over the thnkipad build qulity went down so much. Sure, IBM machines aren't perfect, but since the T-43 they just got as flimsy and non-durable as the competitors.
I believe the whole 5 minutes of battery life is pure pleasure.
It's techno-bio warfare... they created high temperature laptops to kill off our sperm so we won't impregnate their Asian women with our large white dicks.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
When did I say anything about thinness or environmentalism? If someone does CAD, rendering, etc they will be at a workstation. If someone does digital art they have no use for a Quadro/FireGL and a quad-core processor, a Wacom with something that can run Photoshop is good enough. They will not tolerate hauling a laptop around and running out of batteries every two hours.
My automotive parallel was only to illustrate the fact that people are quickly coming to the realization that more efficient, lighter machines allow a user to do the most common use of a laptop (surfing the web, typing up things in Word) without mediocre power that falls short of usefulness for high-performance apps (gaming, rendering, encoding) yet carries severe performance and heat disadvantages.
Other machines may be out there, from Lenovo or whoever, embracing that attitude. I don't care, because that's completely irrelevant. They are looking for a market that doesn't exist in this one.