Lenovo W700DS the Anti-Netbook

January 20th, 2009 | by rey |

Ok, so if you don’t know what a netbook is, which rock have you been hiding under? You know, the small 7 to 10 inch screen mini-notebooks, like the Eee PC 701, Eee PC 1000H, HP Mini 1000, Lenovo S10, and so many iterations of the same theme coming from mainstays of the notebook industry to companies no one’s ever heard of before. Well, this post isn’t about those small, spartan, underpowered, baby laptops. This is about the Lenovo W700DS, the anti-netbook. 

lenovo-thinkpad-w700dsThe Lenovo Thinkpad W700DS is a desktop replacement and then some. The DS, I will assume, stands for Dual Screen. Aside from its 17″ screen, it has a 10.6″ screen that you pull out of the right side. That’s a whole netbook-size screen right there. It has a full-size keyboard and it’s the only laptop that I know of that has a seperate built-in numeric keypad. Another feature unique to this monster is a Wacom tablet to the right of the touchpad where graphics designers can scribble to their heart’s content.

The W700DS is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo with options for a Quad-core (4 core) processor, can have up to 8GB of RAM and options to expand storage space from 320GB to nearly a terabyte over Serial ATA. Compare that to the Intel Atom processor, 512MB-1GB RAM, and 4GB SSD minimum storage on your run-of-the-mill netbook. 

The Lenovo W700DS weighs as much as 8 HP Mini 1000s at approximately 11 lbs and costs nearly 10 times (about $5000) as much in it’s basic configuration. So if you’ve got money to burn and seriously the deskspace for this thing, go ahead and get one. Just don’t think about lugging it around, it isn’t called a desktop replacement for nothing.

  1. 2 Responses to “Lenovo W700DS the Anti-Netbook”

  2. By ThinkPad W700ds on Jan 20, 2009 | Reply

    Frankly, just one screen on the side looks like a horrible growth. If this had dual sliding screens, THEN AND ONLY THEN, would it peak my interests. What gets me is that it would be so much more logical to just make the whole screen larger and lighter with OLED technology.

  3. By rey on Jan 21, 2009 | Reply

    OLED on this thing would be awesome. However, you’d also see an awesome doubling in price at the least.

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