ThinkPad W700ds with Dual Display/ Quad Core CPU Hands On and Video

So far, we have talked about many affordable budget laptops and notebooks, but all the laptops are not inexpensive. There are always well-off consumers out there who are ready to spend hefty money breaking ground powerhouse laptop workstations. ThinkPad W700ds is one of those sorts of laptops that Lenovo is launching it this January.

The desktop replacement ThinkPad W700ds is a professional laptop appropriate to professional users such as developers, gamers, engineers, photographers and designers. The laptop comes with everything that a professional users can think of : dual screen, quad-core Intel Core 2 processors, up to 8GB DDR3 of RAM, 960GB of SSD / HDD storage, discrete NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M GPU and even more.

Obviously the laptop is bulky (measuring 16" by 12" by 2.1" thick). It weighs about 11 pounds and starts at hefty price of $3,600.

According to computerworld, “The primary WUXGA 17-in. screen (with 1920 by 1200-pixel resolution) is brighter and more colorful than other notebook PC screens in the market (rating at 400 nits of brightness), while the secondary 10.2-in vertical screen is about 40% the size of the W700ds' primary 17-in. display. It can also be tilted up to 30 degrees like a car's rearview mirror”. The system also provides an integrated WACOM digitizer (an electronic drawing pad or also called a palm-rest digitizer), and color calibration software tool.

If you like this ThinkPad model preferring a single display you can purchase it with the starting price of around $2,500.
Unfortunately this amazing laptop doesn’t provide any HDMI port instead it comes with a DisplayPort and a DVI-D port (you can find it on 15-in MacBook Pro) that is only used for video (no audio).

Good thing is PC Magazine has reviewed this upcoming laptop with secondary display. The reviewed laptop cost $4,240.00 and featured Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor (2.53GHz), 4GB of RAM, 320GB storage 802.11nWi-Fi, DVD+/-RW DL with Blu-Ray, nVidia Quadro 3700M graphics card and weight of 9lbs.

Here I am only mentioning a rundown of the review:

( Pros):
- An Editors' Choice in the workstation category
- Internal Pantone color calibrator.
- Palm-rest digitizer.
-Option for a cool secondary display which can be used to check e-mails, surf the Web, or multitask without interrupting the operations on the primary screen
-Quad-core processor delivered amazing results.
-Dual hard drives.
-Excellent performance scores.
-ISV certified graphics to guarantee successful running of CAD, DCC, and GIS applications on this laptop.
- Five USB ports, a FireWire port, a webcam, and a fingerprint reader
-Excellent keyboard
-Outstanding graphics for gamers and professionals.
-WUXGA widescreen with rating of 400 nits of brightness.
- Capable of showing 72% of the Adobe RGB color gamut while a typical laptop shows about 45% of it
- Huge storage
- NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M GPU
- DVD+/-RW DL with Blu-Ray

( Cons):
-Butt ugly and bulky
- short battery life of 2 hours and 31 minutes

Bench mark results:

Windows Media Encoder 9 test: ThinkPad W700 scored 35% better than ThinkPad T400

CineBench: The laptop scored double than T400’s score

3DMark 2006 test: W700 laptop scored double than Sony AW190 and

Now, it is the turn of a practical experience. You can see this laptop in the following video. Surly you would like to see the functionality of the secondary display. So, watch it now!