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The Lenovo ThinkPad W700 is the most massive laptop Lenovo's ever made. This over-nine-pound monster is loaded in every way you can imagine and a few you probably can't. Two laptop "firsts" are already making waves. For starters you'll find a stylus secreted in the base of the W700 for a pint-sized Wacom digitizer that has been added next to the mouse pad. The second feature is built-in color calibration. Settings are tweaked automatically, and the before versus after images are striking in the effect the calibration has.
Though groundbreaking, these two features actually add just $150 to a laptop that costs — wait for it — $4,473. It's all those other specs that add to the price tag: A gorgeous LCD, by far the brightest 17-inch model we've ever tested. Core 2 Duo CPU running at a blistering 2.8 GHz. 4 GB of RAM (and 64-bit Vista installed, so you can actually access it all). Dual hard drives. And finally, an Nvidia Quatro FX 3700M graphics card with 1 GB of video RAM. All this goodness powers the W700 to record-setting benchmarks, though not quite offering the highest gaming scores we've seen. The stratospheric price tag ensures the W700 will likely only find a home in the high-test worlds of CAD, 3-D imaging and professional photo editing. The rest of us will simply have to appreciate the thing from afar … and wait for its features to trickle down to cheaper, smaller machines.
WIRED: Digitizer and color calibrator set a new bar for features in a notebook. Top-notch performance all around. Unbeatable screen brightness at this size.
TIRED: Seems bigger than it needs to be: Lid is 20 inches diagonally to fit a 17-inch screen. 87 minutes of battery life is 84 more than the W700 will ever spend on. DVD playback stuttered and ultimately crashed the system during our tests. Keyboard not up to usual ThinkPad standards. Blaringly loud fan.
$4,470 (as tested), Lenovo
Read our full Lenovo ThinkPad W700 review.
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