Dual-screen Thinkpad W700

Thursday, Dec. 18 2008 | Author: Jim

I used to own a Thinkpad T-series before I got my Macbook. Being a former Thinkpad user I’d say it was one of the most solid mobile-PC platform I’ve used in my short 20-year career as a computer geek. Now browsing across Engadget I found out that Thinkpad has recently developed a dual-screen laptop in the Thinkpad W700. That to me is great news.

Good news because they’re positioning the product to a much wider user base. These days, almost everyone has a second or third display. I’ve seen people un-cluttering their workspaces to put order in whatever they do. Trust me, it also contributes to the sanity level in my cubicle here! LOL.

Oh, Thinkpad W700 has an integrated WACOM palm rest digitizer and pen. How’s that for icing on the cake!

Let me share with you the specs right here:

The ThinkPad W700 is the first mobile workstation to deliver:
- Intel Core 2 Extreme processors
- High-capacity RAID HDDs
- Integrated color calibration
- Onboard digitizer and pen

What’s new
- Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q9100 processors
- 10.6-in diagonal second display panel
- Intel Turbo memory 4 GB support
- 4 GB memory DIMM

System features
- RAID DASD high-speed storage
- Integrated color calibration
- Integrated WACOM palm rest digitizer and pen

Displays
- 17-in WUXGA with CCFL backlight and 1920 x 1200 resolution
- 10.6-in WXGA with white LED backlight second display and 768 x 1280 resolution

High-performance features:
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M, 512 MB dedicated video memory
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M, 1 GB dedicated video memory
- Intel Centrino® 2 with vPro and Core 2 Extreme technologies
- Intel PM45 Express chip set
- PC3-8500 double data rate 3 (DDR3) SDRAM 1067 MHz SODIMM high-speed memory
- Intel Active Management Technology 4.0
- WLAN: Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN (3 x 3)1
- 64 GB solid state drive (SSD) for fast, reliable, lightweight, energy-efficient storage
- DisplayPort
- Dual Link DVI
- Integrated camera
- Intel Turbo memory

ThinkPad layered security: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, ThinkVantage Client Security, hardware-based HDD encryption, and fingerprint reader