Lenovo W700ds struts its stuff on film
By Laura June 
posted Dec 25th 2008 8:07AM
posted Dec 25th 2008 8:07AM
We'll freely admit that Lenovo's ThinkPad W700ds is, shall we say... intriguing. So sure, we're a little envious that GottaBeMobile's gotten their hands on one, but they've kindly shared what they know with the rest of the world. The model they've got boasts a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU, 4 GB of RAM, and NVIDIA Quadro FX3700M graphics. As for those displays, the primary is a 17-inch WUXGA with a 1920 x 1200, and the secondary panel is a 10.6-inch WXGA with a 768 x 1200 resolution. It all looks mighty interesting to us, but you're going to want to check the video after the break to see for yourself.
First post!
FAIL!
SQUEAK!
YOU 'VE LOST KIDDO.
64GB of ram huh? Nice!!!!!!!
Weird, the link says it's 4GB.
Correction: It has a slightly less exciting 4GB of RAM.
The link also says "64bit Vista, 4GB RAM". Engadget must have accidentally snipped a bit out.
Too much mulled wine, eh fellas?
4gig seems more realistic, maybe there feeling a bit optimistic!
I dont think theres any laptops out there with that much ram!
In this case I will stick with my 16GB Dell Precision laptop. Thank you very much.
Nothing exciting about Lenovo, nothing at all
That sounds a bit more realistic. I was scratching me head for a minute there...
The 64gb of ram is really all I wanted to hear about........ This thing is looking less interesting as I see more of it....
64GB? That sounds a little low... :P
I think it will have up to 32 GB if I remember right. But yeah I guess they corrected the post because now it says 4 GB.
Oh yeah, and I really want this laptop! It will be the best ever! Lenovo is awesome.
I certainly like the integrated drawing pad, but the secondary display seems a bit.. Gimmicky to me. If the second display was larger than 10.6" I reckon it'd be a lot more useful.
I'd imagine the side panel is used for Photoshop as professional photoshop users tend to use 2 displays keeping their main display free from any tools so all they see is the imagine and the 2nd display has all the tools they'd need.
I'm all about a gimmick.
You see the imagine in your brain.
I could see having a larger secondary or 2 10.6 inchers. but this just seens... offbalance
You're *OBVIOUSLY* not the target market for this device as you can't even put your finger on why one would need such a 2nd display.
Think Photoshop, think CAD software, think 3D design software, think about any sort of graphic intensive suite wherein one can use their main screen to manipulate the image/design itself without any tools getting in their way and using said 2nd display to offload those tools onto.
It makes for a much more streamlined and efficient workspace in the design realm.
Is that a side mirror?
Or are you just pleased to see me?!
that is just win of epic proportions
I'd agree if it didn't seem to take ten seconds each time you wanted to open and close that other screen.
Then again, Wacom with anything = win
whats that 10sec compare 2 hours of concentrate work...
So when is the TS coming with the 10.6" on each side.
"This is a HUGE computer."
You got that right! 0_o
I don't know... It seems slow and very cumbersome. I don't like it that much. Howeve, on the other hand, the Wacom tablet inclusion seems really interesting!
Or a very small tech blogger.
Its got 4GB ram not 64 gig. Its 64 Bit Vista.
Intel Core 2 Extreme 2.53 ghz
4 GB RAM
64 bit Vista
460gb hard disk storage
17" primary display, 1920 x 1200
10.75" built-in secondary display, 768 x 1200. screen dimensions: 5.5" x 9.25"
built-in 5" Wacom digitizer
NVidia Quadro FX3700M Video Card
Ports, adapters: multi-media card reader, CF card reader, Express 64, 1394 FireWire, , 5 USB ports, 1 modem, 1 ethernet, wireless
Display Port, DVI, VGA
Digital pen
CD / DVD
Track pad with 5 buttons, track stick
Full numeric keypad
Expect pricing and official announcement from Lenovo soon.
It's not a track stick, it's a ... http://xkcd.com/243/
64 gigs of ram nice! Its like having an eye on my elbow! It would be cool that its there but there isnt much need for it, unless you happened to be walking in front of Adriana Lima and just happened to start walking like they do in old black and white musicals with their elbows pointing out behind them.
WTF are you talking about?!?
Ofcourse the thing is not if the musicians were like that but the elephands the came after the party was gone to Lima before anything else goes fist than the previews. What I am saying is... is... I dont know what I am saying but I totaly agre with Zondajag.
ONE Plus for Zondajag.
Question: Can I have the 2nd screen on the left side, as well as the Wacom Pad?
Let's just say I'm one of a very small percentage of users who are dominantly left handed (lefty mouse, Wacom pad, AfterFX and Photoshop controls, etc.) and I may give this behemoth a go if they have something configured for some of us who are total southpaws.
I'm left handed too. Will have to check Flanders' shop.
I'd say the odds of that hover around 0 to -20 percent.
No wonder AVG keeps on bugging me... I'M A SYMANTEC GUY! hahahaha.... :D
Symantec is my fat, bloated cousin that everybody stopped talking to.
...And AVG is the annoying security dude that keeps bragging how he is way better than the rest yet most predators still manage to pass through him despite saying he's updated. >:D
I think I'd call that a "personification fail" since a person would most likely not call themselves "updated." Unless they were weird.
When in doubt get mac which doesnt need an anti-virus :)
Well, it's weird when you call yourself by a product and not by a human name. That's more of a "PRODUCT PERSONIFICATION FAIL." Anyway, I wouldn't like a constant nagging reminder to update or whatever. :D
Oh wait... AVG does nag me on my posts! And they do the same with their programs! They nag others who don't use AVG!
As for getting a Mac, I already have a MacPro, an MBP (not unibody, the one before that) and an early G5. And even on Mac OS X, I have Symantec AntiVirus running on all my machines, PCs oand Mac alike.
I'd rather be prepared for an onslaught than point fingers when levees are breached.
Symantec Antivirus.... too slooooowwwww.. must.... must compute..
must fight virus...must.. must..
WARNING !!
WINDOWS HAVE DETECTED THE SLOWEST ANTIVIRUS OF THE PLANET
AND PLUS YOUR PC IS NOW INFECTED.
Press any key to go to reboot in SNAIL MODE...
SLOW?!?!!?!?
I've been a Symantec user for many years. I don't notice a significant drop in performance on my computers. My connections' maybe a bit slow due to SAV scanning my net traffic, and I've accepted that compromise since having an infected network costs big bucks to fix.
Best of all, Symantec doesn't nag you of updates or problems on your system. If it encounters a problem, that's the only time it'll nag you. Unlike the "others" who keeps bugging you to update or whatever.
Also, I don't buy low-end hardware. Maybe that's the reason Symantec products ain't running right on your machine. >:D
I assume he's talking about Symantec Anti-Virus, not Norton. SAV is the corporate solution. I've ran it for years, it's nothing like the Norton products. Although I've read that the newest version of Norton is a lot faster than previous versions too.
Hell.. he puts the wacom pen on the monitor...whoops!.and than says it's like a tablet pc.. but without the touchscreen... just to cover the fact that he mistook something..
He would have needed to focus the piece on the second display and not on the tablet.
SHOW US SOMETHING on the second monitor!!! Who cares of your ability to write bullshit wiht your pen.
Lol, I had to read twice to see if I imagined it saying 64GB RAM!!!
I figured that RAM value had to be wrong. Sippin' on the egg nog I bet.
OMG ... My eyes just started bleeding .. !
so portable
That's what she said!
Dual Screen is not just for Photoshop ! All the professional creators like Musicians, Movie Editors and everybody u know who uses a computer in his professional life prefers a double display. One for the main project and other for editing the main project so they dont miss the view of what they are doing at any time !
A little bit of what you call trolling, but i call it a little bit of truth: Professionals use Macs.
Macs, well yes they do but not all of them but the thing Is dual Screen a tech that is not available on Macs or something ?? Well we're talking about that Screen thing and what doe OS has got to do with this ???
lol. I know plenty of graphic professionals who do not use Mac, as well as those who do.
Actually, adobe software particularly photoshop is known to have a lot of issues with a mac. However, on the mac, you are likely to have a better benchmark but at the same time what is benchmark if it crashes often? Using mac can be beneficial for certain professional applications but ironically, professionals unless musician or videographer tend to not use as a majority, mac for their preferred platform.
Oh My god, that Laptop is UGLY. MONSTER.
still its better than yours! by a big big margin.
It frightens me how many people on this site seem to have a sexual attraction to phones/computers (apparently not this one though).
so what if you accidently bumped into the second display? CRACK!!!
Unless you nailed the Thinkpad to the desk, bumping into the auxiliary display would probably... . . just push the rest of the laptop along with it. No big deal.
WHY?! All the least wanted features packed into one GIANT laptop! Nice..
beside other thinkpads, this fat thing is ugly.
Sure, MACs, Sure. So the 80% of computer users are ALL amateurs.. sure.
Maybe the 64 GB is the SSD not the RAM
First!
Shoo!
lol
The primary is a 17-inch WUXGA with a 1920 x 1200, and the secondary panel is a 10.6-inch WXGA with a 768 x 1200 resolution.
so if you consider them both as one display it's 22" with 2688 x 1200 resolution.
Doesn't work like that... you can't add the height of the small one onto the height of the big one! It's on the side for gods sake!
Yes it does , i didn't add the height i add the width , and sine both about the same height (8.3" & 8.9") and both (1200) Pixel, i can do that.
17" (with 16:9 aspect ratio)= 14.8" x 8.33"
10.6" (with 1:1.56 aspect ratio)= 8.9" x 5.7"
SUM: 20.5"=(14.8"+5.7") x ~8.3" = 22.1" (with 2.24:1 aspect ratio) and 2688 x 1200 resolution
O.o sorry, misread your maths. Feel free to rank me down, people.
sorry, misread your maths. Feel free to rank me down.
AWW DAMNIT!
I think Engadget has a time restriction between posts now, and my posts weren't going through, resulting in me making them repeatedly... damnit...
that's a huge laptop, i thought laptops are supposed to be portable?
This one's transportable.
A whole new definition to sideshow!
Interesting idea...terrible design.
kill me NOW! This thing looks uglier than I thought. Not only is it huge but it's actually impractical and has terrible software integration / drivers. Notice how the displays turn off for a couple of secs every time you do anything to the 2nd display. Not only that but lenovo for some reason though the it would be funny to include one glossy and one matte display. Honestly I really can't imagine any designer/graphics pro / whoever-this-might-be-targeting using one of these monstrosities. This is one of those projects that should have never made it pass the paper stage.
The main display blinks only when you activate or deactivate the secondary display. That's just like connecting and disconnecting a second monitor on any Vista machine. It will detect that and automatically reconfigure the desktop (like moving your windows over to the remaining display). This is standard behaviour and not a shortcoming of Lenovo's implementation.
that is the shittest thing i have ever seen
why am i looking at it on xmas day?
oh dear
I wonder how durable it is?
In one way I like it. Its a powerful computer with a great screen, a built in wacom and a second screen. All things that a professional artist would likely use. Its not very portable however, so I am unsure of where to use this. Surely someone working from an office or at home would prefer a probably more powerful tower computer with a separate larger tablet and a separate larger second screen.
I can only come up with a scenario where a professional will be traveling somewhere where they will not have these features and they absolutely must have them. Its certainly more portable than a normal computer.
Alas apart from this luxury for those that throw money around just seems like a nice concept, not something that's worth buying.
(still people shouldn't berate a company that try's to innovate)
I am not ashamed people. I want that bad ass piece o machinery.
Gah, it's a BEAST! Still, I would rather have the screen turn into one big tabletpc instead of having the waccom placed on the plam rest.
It's too bad you can't have both panels AND a third (external) display all active at the same time. The dual-link DVI port is just calling out for a 30" display...
the 2nd display being touch screen will make it better.
And the keyboard sucks.
That's pretty cool but I wouldn't want one.
i love this system. I just want lenovo to continue with this project and slim this beast