Lenovo ThinkPad W700 Workstation Review and Specifications

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Lenovo ThinkPad W700, the most powerful mobile workstation ever? We think so!

Lenovo finally come clean and announce the ThinkPad W700. We have said consistently over the last few weeks that the W700 was a reality and will be launched in September, and here it is.

Let’s put our money on the table and state here and now that the W700 is the most powerful, fully featured portable workstation that money can buy. And nothing will come close for a long time.

This formidable workstation, which will have a starting price of $2,978 and will be available in September, will eat every graphic, video editing and CAD application out there.

The ThinkPad W700 has been designed from the outset to handle anything that you can throw at it whether you are a Graphical Artist, and Architect, Engineer, Film Producer or Rocket Scientist!

The W700 includes a built in Wacom digitizer pad on the right of the TrackPad, and auto colour calibration in less than 3 minutes. Features like these are an absolute first in a laptop and are further testament to the quality of Lenovo’s Engineering.

In brief the W700 includes the Intel Quad Core Extreme CPU as an option and NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 3700 graphics chipset with a 1GB of memory on-board. Boy is this thing going to fly through those number crunching apps. The workstation also includes dual hard drive bays configurable as RAID 0 or 1 with either SSD Drives or conventional Hard Disk’s.

You will be able to specify up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and an optional Blu-ray drive. And of course with power like this it’s going to be awesome for ‘after hours’ movies and games. There’s nothing this baby can’t handle. Weighing in at 8.3 pounds, the ThinkPad W700 must be one of the heaviest notebooks available, rivaling notebooks like the HP Pavilion HDX. But with this power, nothing comes close and at last Graphics and Engineering pros can throw their desktops away.

Conclusion.

If you need the ultimate in processing power, huge amounts of storage and a superbly accurate colour correct screens with high resolution, and the innovation of a built in graphics tablet, mark your calendar for the middle of September.

And don’t forget to subscribe to the feed, we promise to let you know as soon as the ThinkPad W700 becomes available! There’s not going to be anything that comes close to the ThinkPad W700 for a long time.

Quick Specifications for the ThinkPad W700

• Core 2 Extreme Processor, available in Quad Core
• Dual Hard Drives, either SSD or conventional available in RAID 0 or 1
• NVIDIA Quadro FX Mobile Graphics with up to 1GB of video memory
• A 17-inch 1920×1200 resolution screen
• On board colour calibration which calibrates the screen in less three minutes
• Built-in WACOM Digitizer with a stylus that pops into a holder. (Superb!)
• Up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM