Gizmodo: w700ds

Hands On: Lenovo's Dual-Screen Laptop Has Basically Every Feature Ever

Adam Frucci — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:53:23 EST

I just played around with the new Lenovo W700ds laptop, complete with two screens and built-in Wacom tablet, and it's a monster. It's not exactly portable, but it's as feature-filled as laptops get.

Of course there's the secondary screen, clocking in at 10.6 inches and popping out of the side of the 17-inch screen. But there's also the built-in Wacom digitizer. And the fingerprint scanner. It is, frankly, awesome. But the cost of said awesomeness is size: this thing is an absolute tank.

Weighing in at about 11 pounds, this is more desktop replacement than portable computer. Sure, you could carry it around with you, but expect back problems if you try to do it too often. Oh, and the battery life? Two hours. Er, yeah. But for people who are looking for a boatload of functionality (not to mention two screens) in a laptop, there are few peers to the W700ds out there.

How the Dual Display Works In the IBM ThinkPad W700ds, Part II

Mark Wilson — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:12:00 EST

We've already seen a clip with the Lenovo W700ds laptop popping out its secondary monitor. But here's much better clip that really gives you a real idea of how it works.

The things we noted: the second display does slide out fairly smoothly and it takes just a few seconds for the monitors to readjust to the dual format. But from what we can tell, the second display also looks dimmer and possibly presents colors differently than the main display—though we can't speak for its calibration. So yeah, it may be a novelty. But we've seen worse novelties. [GottaBeMobile]

Crazy IBM ThinkPad W700ds Has Integrated Secondary Display

Jesus Diaz — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:56:01 EST

The new IBM ThinkPad W700 has an integrated secondary display. Foldable, 10.6 inches of it, with 768 x 1,280 pixels and LED backlight. Color us impressed. The amazing feature list doesn't stop there.

Not only you won't have to wait to get that tri-screen MacBook Pro—ok, you will have to wait for that, because this one only has two displays—but the IBM ThinkPad W700 feature list is absolutely impressive:

• Intel® Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme, and Core 2 Quad Core Q9100 processors

• Main 17-inch 1,920 x 1,200 display, CCFL backlight

• NVIDIA Quadro Express graphics technology

• Intel Turbo Memory 4GB module support

• 4 GB memory DIMM

• Integrated color calibration

• Wacom onboard palm rest digitizer and pen

• Integrated 10.6-inch 768 x 1,280 secondary display, LED backlight

• 64 GB solid state drive

• DisplayPort

• Dual Link DVI

• Integrated camera

• Dual RAID HDD high-speed storage (250GB max, one could be 64GB SSD)

• Wireless LAN Intel WiFi Link 5300

• ThinkVantage® technologies

• Trusted ThinkPad layered security

Yes, expect it to be big: 10.9 pounds with one hard drive installed. [IBM via NoteBook Review—Thanks Leo]