If there is notebook that I would love to see in my office’s cubicle, this is the one, ThinkPad w700ds.
First and foremost, I admired the dual-screen functionality that it has.The retractable 10.6″ screen expands the display area by 39 percent. It suit analyzing-orientation task that required many applications opened at any time, and do comparison and troubleshooting. Productivity can be slightly improved by reducing the task of switching between applications.
Other specs are not less impressive. Taken from product page -
System features
- Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q9100 processors
- 10.6-in diagonal second display panel
- Intel Turbo memory 4 GB support
- 4 GB memory DIMM
- 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 mobile graphics:
- 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
Connectivity wise, it support variety of standard as follow. It is one of the earliest notebook that I found support WiMAX, meaning that you no longer need P1′s wimax’s modem to access their broadband(right??)
- Wireless LAN
- Wireless WAN
- Ultra Wideband
- WiMAX
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Bluetooth®
If you care about green and environment, W500 is GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality and EPEAT Silver certified and Energy Star 4.0 rated.
The only downside is the weight, which at 4.96 kg (10.9 lb) with one HDD for the dual-screen model. Obviously this is not really mobility gears to be carried everywhere.
And don’t expect this to come cheap. Be ready to splash USD3,069.00 for this monster.
