Staff Techdrunk 
Lenovo Group Ltd. recently announced the release of a ThinkPad Laptop that marks the entry of “notebooks with dual screens” for first time in the global market.
The ThinkPad W700ds sports two LCD screens – a 17-inch primary and a 10.6-inch secondary screen and is available with up to 8GB of DDR3 memory.
“This is the nitro-burning drag racer of ThinkPads,” confirmed Craig Merrigan, vice president of global consumer marketing for Lenovo, in a briefing this week.
It comes up with a pair of hard drive/solid-state drive bays for up to 960GB of storage
and is available with customers’ choice of quad-core Intel Core 2 processors and Nvidia Quadro mobile graphics CPU with as many as 128 cores. The W700ds measures 16 inches by 12 inches, and is 2.1 inches thick.
According a news on this blog, the W700ds was originally timed for release the week of the Consumer Electronics Show that was supposed to be held in January.
But thanks to the world of blogs the information was leaked out on the Internet earlier this month after a Web page went live early on IBM’s Web site.
“Why two screens? Most people are using two monitors at their desktop. So we wanted to give them all the things they are used to on their desk,” said Wes Williams, worldwide product marketing manager for ThinkPads.
“The primary WUXGA 17-inch screen is brighter and more colorful than other laptop PC screens, Williams said. The main screen is rated at 400 nits of brightness, which is brighter than any other notebook in the market, Williams said. It also has a color gamut equivalent to 72% of AdobeRGB that is better than other notebooks and a plus for photographers and graphic designers,” he said.
Features:
- Intel® Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and Core 2 Extreme processors
- NVIDIA Quadro Express graphics technology
- Integrated color calibration
- Onboard palm rest digitizer and pen
- Integrated second display screen
- RAID HDD high-speed storage
- Large, high-resolution displays
- Wireless LAN (WLAN)
- ThinkVantage® technologies
- Trusted ThinkPad layered security
Richard Shim , an analyst with research firm IDC, said the W700ds is a “very niche-y, technical showcase type of product” that will nevertheless likely be a “big hit” with photographers, designers and developers who will value the included productivity-enhancing tools over its shoulder-aching weight.
It is expected that the laptop will be made available in the month of January starting at a price range of $3,600.(Rs 1,70,600)
