Like your laptops to be over-achievers? Like, the really annoyingly stacked variety of over-achiever? Enter Lenovo's newest outrage -- the ThinkPad W700. 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. Take a look at our hands-on below and see the beast for yourself.
Update: The kids over at Notebooks dropped in some videos of the W700 including a brief look at the Wacom digitizer in action with Photoshop. Check it after the break.
posted Aug 12th 2008 12:01AM
First? Not the first Quad, you guys just earlier said the HO was the first...
and you guys thought I was saying anothing else first... Nope.
This is a Core 2 Extreme, the EliteBook is likely a Core 2 Quad, and I wouldn't be surprised if this comes out first lol.
+1
the HP came in with almost identical specs bar the tablet digitiser yet this single laptop got pumped much more.
The reason for the schoolgirl-excited post seems to be because engadget got sent a demo unit.
So there's a marketing hint HP, give them something to drool over and you'll get more coverage.
Look at the thickness that bezel! They could have fitted a 19 inch screen into that lid...
There wasa typo, "HP" 8730w was announced earlier today...
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hows the battery life?
Over 9000, milliseconds.
I highly doubt it exceeds 2 hours. 1.1 hours maybe... Unless a huge portion underneath is packing 15000mAh worth of battery justice.
This sucker's electrical, but you need a nuclear reaction to produce the 1.21 gigawatts of power needed for the quad core extreme, Nvidia FX, 17" screen, digitizer, 2x HDD, Blu-ray and all that ram.
Great Scott!!
...did you rip that off?
Do people actually expect to use machines like this on battery? I'd think it's a desk to desk solution with a built in UPS.
THE HULK: "LENOVO MAKE HULK ANGRY. BATTERY LIFE SUCK. HULK SMASH NETBOOK!"
Dr Banner: "Where's that 17" monster I just bought?"
Damn typos...
were is the edit button?
lol
irony
Were did all the posts go? Error?
You must be new here... Welcome to Engadget. What you are experiencing is not an error; everything is going according to design.
were'da coulda shoulda
That's not a Bug, it's a Feature!
I would never buy one of these but I gotta ask, is there a model for leftys?
why sir? you can't write on the right side with your left hand?
Unless you can turn the trackpad off, no.
Actually, even with the trackpad not going haywire, that'd be hard because of the feel of the trackpad on your hand and wrist.
I wish this was in a 15in model, and had the option to put the Wacom on the left =(
I'm going to sue the bastards for discrimination. Most intelligent and creatively gifted people are lefty's. I want one anyway, and ownership will likely help my lawsuit.
There's not enough room to the left of the touchpad to put the digitizer there unless it was smaller. You'd have to put the number pad on the left of the keyboard, plus move the internals around to fit the digitizer on the left side (and the touchpad shifted right a few inches). In the end it'd probably be a $500+ premium due to tooling and such.
er.... I think my 2G Surf just wet itself....
Sorry, he just doesn't do well with bullies, and I can assure you this thing will be taking some lunch money when it's let out in public.
Where are all the Apple fanbois? C'mon you must have something to say...
they're (we're) upset because you guys got the Wacom notebook first.
No...not at all. Not to something like that.
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
Do. Want.
Nope. Nothing to say because any half decent 'creative' wouldn't touch a computer like that with the wacom fixed to the laptop in that fashion. People that use graphic tablets like to have their own way to hold them, be that at an angle, on their lap - whatever.
That design necessitates that it must be on the desktop at all times - if I want to angle it I have to tilt the whole computer. Ergonomically, it looks a nightmare. And the tablet area is just too small for any proper work. And doesn't suit left handers.
It's not being fanboyish, I don't care what computer anyone uses and if you're in the design industry it's what gets the job done, not what you did it on that counts but that's adding something to a computer that kills it's usability. It may have everything you need on it but that doesn't mean everything on it is very good or carries out its true function. =)
So your only complaint is the embedded digitizer? What if it popped out and used bluetooth?
@dobba
So, what would a creative user touch, a computer with no tablet at all? Would the absence of a tablet make it a better computer, improve its 'usability'?
For god's sake, it is obvious that these computers are made for the desktop. The integrated devices (trackpad, trackpoint, tablet) are meant to be used when you have no other choice. During normal use - on the desktop - you can have all the dangling devices you want.
Would said creative user use the trackpad (or the trackpoint) routinely to do his work instead of a mouse and be called 'half decent'?
The important thing is that when Apple comes out with a similar design in a few months, it will be all praise, and somehow it'll become common knowledge that Lenovo coppied apple (a la Sony keyboard).
Personally, in my office environment, this thing would be solid gold: a business machine that can manhandle CAD and GIS tools.
Damn. That is one BEAST of a laptop.
Heh, that thing is so industrial that I kinda love it.
SERIOUS BONER
Remember Harry, the wand chooses the wizard.
I really don't understand how to pick a username..
YES! Got it.
all that fanfare and your name is a hamburger?
Can we see a side to side comparison photo next to the x200 please?
can we see a side to side comparison with some asian models.
@andres: Why? To see whether the laptop or model is flatter?
Oh no he di'in.
But srlsy. I know what you were getting at. I've never seen Lenovo bring out models, though. It seems to be more of a Korean tech company trend (LG, Samsung, etc.)
dude are you crazy?
the model would have to be a wrestler to hold it up!
or they could also use 5 models which would be quite nice... :>
It's definitely an awesome laptop, those are some insane specs, I just wish the design was a bit more pleasing to the eyes. Some people may like it, but it really looks like it's stuck in the mid 90's or something haha.
yea. i just the bezels, the trackpoint and the blue enter keys. semi-fail.
hate*^
Ultimate Mobile Porn Machine
aka UMPM
Shouldn't they have co-branded that with Hummer? Y'know abit like Acer and Ferrari (or what that Lambourghini?)