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Testing Lenovo's ThinkPad W700ds Dual-Screen Notebook

Posted by kdawson on from the laptop-envy dept.

MojoKid writes "Lenovo's ThinkPad W700 is a unique product, targeted squarely at mobile professionals who require the power, features, and performance of workstation-class product in a notebook. The machine has a few stand-out integrated features, like a Wacom Digitizer Tablet and X-Rite Color Calibrator. In addition, the ThinkPad W700ds version and adds a secondary, slide-out 10.6" WXGA+ display, which increases monitor real-estate by 39% spanning across its two panels. HotHardware's video demonstrates the machine's arsenal of toys for the graphics pro, in a somewhat portable desktop replacement notebook."

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  1. The screen is on the wrong side by harmonise · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The screen is on the wrong side. Because of the numeric keypad, the home position for typing is to the left side of the computer. This means that you are facing the left side of your screen while typing instead of facing the center of the screen. Putting the second screen on the right makes this even worse. You'll type while always looking slightly to the right. If the screen had been placed on the left side, at least a user could sit in front of the computer, type, and be facing the center of the two screens.

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    1. Re:The screen is on the wrong side by Random+Destruction · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You're thinking like a coder, not like a graphics pro. The wacom tablet is the main input device, not the keyboard.

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  2. WTH by Eil · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So the engineers at Lenovo have pretty much crammed more "computer" into this laptop than any laptop has had crammed so far. Two screens, nearly full keyboard, two pointing devices, a digitizer tablet, along with a metric crapload of CPU, video, disk, memory, along with the usual gamut of notebook options. It'll set you back between 3000 and 8000 cool US dollars.

    And it still comes with a built-in dialup modem inside.

    What. The. Hell.