Testing Lenovo's ThinkPad W700ds Dual-Screen Notebook 197
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."
Re:Well (Score:4, Informative)
- webcam -:$20.
- fingerprint scanner -: $35
- Wacom tablet -: $79
- VGA/DualLink DVI/DisplayPort -: Probably already in a $2K desktop.
- Display Calibrator -: Never seen this on desktop or Laptop before, don't know how well it works.
- FireWire -: Probably already in a $2K desktop.
- Express/Smart Card expansion -: 5 in 1 multicard reader. $15
- WiFi/Bluetooth -: USB Bluetooth and PCI WiFi -: $30 total
- Not to mention... fits in your backpack -: Back to the grand parent's point that "the extra cost really is just for mobility."
$2,179 is still a hell of a lot cheaper than $6,209.
Re:Well (Score:3, Informative)
Intel's new Core i7 920 can be overclocked to 3.2GHz with the stock cooler (and without voiding the warranty,) and go much higher on marginally more expensive coolers. 3.8GHz easily on a $40 heatsink and fan, 4.0 GHz if you opt for the extremely high end heatsinks, 4.2 GHz I've seen on water running stable. And on more exotic coolers, you can hit 4.5-5.0 GHz.
I imagine that is similar to his situation. The Core i7 costs $290 right now or so, and can easily beat the older Core 2 based $1550 processor you found in most benchmarks. Especially anything that hits the memory, as my i7 can hit 18GB/s (big B) to RAM. That's two and a half times what Intel's dual-QX9775 "Skulltrail" platform can do.
My entire machine cost lest than that QX9775, by the way.
Re:4 Months ago (Score:1, Informative)
...Working with a standard 15" notebook screen is like drafting on a napkin with a magic marker...
Not so terrible with a really high-rez LCD display. I was really surprised by how much more they can display over the usual 1280X800 displays. Text looks a whole lot better, too.
Re:Genuine Windows (Score:4, Informative)
Lenovo is not IBM
Re:Information about Lenovo ThinkPad (Score:1, Informative)
Typical monkeylover ranting. GTFO.
Re:Canyonero? (Score:5, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F [wikipedia.org]
Re:Well (Score:2, Informative)
Actually I've gotten the fingerprint reader to work on my T60 in Ubuntu, even from the command line. My guess is that it wouldn't be too terrible to get it working on this machine either...
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader_with_ThinkFinger [thinkwiki.org]