Lenovo W700ds struts its stuff on film
By Laura June 
posted December 25th 2008 8:07AM
posted December 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.
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