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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 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.

    5. 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.

    6. 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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    7. 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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  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 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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    2. Re:Discrimination by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So where would you put the Wacom on this laptop...

      Oh I don't know, on the screen, maybe? You know, like a normal Tablet PC, which is exactly what this is except that Tablet PCs have bigger digitizers and work better because the strokes appear where the user actually drew them.

      I mean really, what kind of idiot would want this?! It's like getting a really tiny Intuos when you could have had a nice big Cintiq for less!

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  4. Discrimination by Spad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    a built in Wacom digitizer just to the right of the trackpad

    Ideal unless you're left handed and therefore cursed to spend all your time catching the trackpad while trying to write/draw anything.

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

    Slashdot would like to thank our sponsors, Engadget.

  6. 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.

  7. My wife's reaction... by ghmh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... (she's a graphic designer):

    "Ooooooh!" (based on in-built Wacom thingie). - Interest level: High

    Seconds later, "But it's not a Mac!" - Interest level: None

    1. Re:My wife's reaction... by argent · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If she was rejecting any non-Mac product without having experience with Windows, possibly.

      But I doubt that any computer user in the world has too little experience with Windows. If you've used Windows and you still don't like it, that's a rational choice (obviously one you disagree with, but de gustibus non erat disputandum), not prejudice.

  8. Color Calibration by mbaciarello · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I deal with pictures occasionally in my job, and I've had to manually/ocularly calibrate my monitors more than once. Big pain, especially when you don't have adequate lighting in the room.

    The automatic calibration video really struck me as innovative, though nowhere close to game-changing, at least for a portable monitor. However, I don't understand where the system gets color information from.

    The laptop has a camera on top of the LCD, so if there were, say, a tiny mirror near the trackpad it could see the monitor when the lid's down; but I see no reflective surface in the keyboard area--how does it see the monitor ouput?

    Anyone care to share their take (or knowledge) on this? Just curious...

  9. 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