Lenovo Reveals Thinkpad W700

Lenovo already has one of the (if not the) most desirable small form-factor notebooks in the form of the X300 and taking a look at the just-announced W700 that trend seems set to continue. Creating a system likely to be every graphic designers dream, Lenovo has packed a Wacom digitizer into the lower half of the W700's chassis and, as if that wasn't enough, is offering a mouth-watering set of components too.

The core specs, then, are as such:

• 17in, 1,920 x 1,200 screen (with auto-calibration based on ambient lighting)
  
• Intel mobile quad-core Extreme Edition CPU.
  
• Up to 8GB DDR3 RAM
  
• Hard drive options including RAID 0, 1 and SSDs
  
• Wacom tablet digitizer
  
• Blu-ray drive option
  
• nVidia Quadro FX 2700M or 3700M graphics
  
• Up to 2GB Turbo Memory
  

Frankly, at its top spec, that's an almost dangerously fitted system for a laptop especially given Wacom's impeccable reputation for making quality tablets. Not that a few left-handed potential buyers aren't likely to be frustrated by the positioning of that pad - at least so our resident lefty, Ardjuna, says.

Price wise the system starts from around the $3,000 (~£1,500) but expect that to spiral upwards at an alarming rate as the specs are upped. Can you really put a price on what might be the most deserving system of the desktop replacement category yet?

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via Engadget.