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Lenovo's New ThinkPad Has 2 LCD Screens, Weighs 11 Pounds

Posted by Soulskill on from the portables-with-a-nontrivial-schwarzschild-radius dept.

ericatcw writes "With many users now used to having multiple monitors at home or work, you had to figure someone would try to offer a 'desktop replacement' laptop that offered the same. Lenovo is the first. Its new W700ds laptop will offer a 10.6 inch LCD screen in addition to the 17-inch primary display. The W700ds also sports a quad-core Intel Core 2 CPU, up to almost 1 TB of storage, and an Nvidia Quadro mobile chip with up to 128 cores. A Lenovo exec called this souped-up version of the normally buttoned-down-for-business ThinkPads the 'nitro-burning drag racer of ThinkPads.' There is even a Wacom digitizer pad and pen for graphic artists, who are expected to be the target market, along with photographers and other creative types who are willing to trade shoulder-aching bulk (11 pounds) and price (minimum of $3,600) for productivity enhancements." At the other end of the laptop size spectrum, Dell recently announced plans to launch a rival to the MacBook Air. Called "Adamo," it is supposedly "thinner than the MacBook Air," though further details will have to wait for the Computer Electronics Show in early January.

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  1. Re:Since Lenovo took over, Thinkpads suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lenovo has always made Thinkpads, or at least has for a decade or more. IBM just decided to sell the rest of the business to them but let them use the IBM name for a few years.

    dom

  2. Re:128 cores by Rufus211 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I thought they were normally called 3dmarks, but I guess Epeens would work.

  3. Re:Interesting idea, poor implementation. by Kris_J · · Score: 3, Informative

    And that software would be Maxivista.

  4. 11 pounds is 5kg by xaxa · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'll save everyone else having to look it up.

  5. Re:What's the point? by timeOday · · Score: 3, Informative
    My experience watching people use laptops around the workplace is that, outside of airplanes, they usually don't run on batteries. Mostly it's people moving their laptop to work in somebody else's office for a few hours, or giving a presentation, or taking notes at a meeting, and generally they are plugged in.

    I also have a good number of co-workers who choose 17" laptops. They are relatively big, but when it gets right down to it, it doesn't take them any longer to put those in a laptop bag and go somewhere than it does anybody with a smaller computer.