October 8th, 2008 by
Filed under: Laptops, Wireless
It’s a big day in Baltimore with the proper launch of Sprint’s XOHM WiMAX network, and Lenovo’s making sure it snags a bit of that limelight to announce this. Starting today, prospective customers can snatch up a ThinkPad SL300, SL500, X301 and T400 with integrated WiMAX capability, meaning that you can hop on the ultra-fast mobile internet highway in Baltimore and elsewhere if you’re really lucky. Later this year, the laptop maker will be adding the option on its business-focused ThinkPad W500, W700, SL400 and X200 models as well as the consumer-minded IdeaPad Y530. There’s no word on how much this capability adds to the cost of a machine, but WiMAX-enabled lappies can be had starting at $720 right now.
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October 3rd, 2008 by
Filed under: Laptops
You could tell from the specs sheet that Lenovo’s ThinkPad W700 wasn’t a common man’s machine, and a review from the cats at Laptop Mag has all but confirmed that. Dubbed “a beast of a 17-inch [laptop],” this rig was marveled upon right from the get-go; after all, it’s not everyday that you see a full-fledged digitizer built right into the palm rest, not to mention the integrated color calibrator. Unfortunately, such niceties weren’t bundled in for free, as the review unit they had rocked a $3,802 price tag. Still, the design, build quality and performance were all stellar, but critics couldn’t help but point out that this unique creature wouldn’t be worthwhile for everyone. In fact, they praised Lenovo for “incorporated some truly innovative features,” but they did confess that they weren’t “entirely convinced of their practicality.” Think long and hard before digging into your kids’ college fund for this one, you hear?
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August 24th, 2008 by
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Not like Lenovo has been keeping this duo on the DL or anything, but the potent W500 and W700 are now available to order. Hailed as the company’s “most powerful notebooks ever,” the 15.4-inch W500 gets going from $1,629 with a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 CPU, Vista Home Premium, a WSXGA+ display, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, ATI’s 512MB Mobility FireGL V5700, a 100GB HDD, DVD combo drive, WiFi and a 6-cell battery. Overshadowing that is the 17-inch W700, which starts at $2,978 and features a WXGA+ display, T9400 CPU, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA’s 512MB Quadro FX-2700 and a 160GB hard drive. The W500 should ship within 1 to 2 weeks, while the W700 isn’t expected to head your way for a solid month. No worries — that gives you plenty of time to save up for the $1,275 QX9300 Core 2 Extreme option.
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August 11th, 2008 by
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Like your laptops to be over-achievers? Like, the really annoyingly stacked variety of over-achiever? Enter Lenovo’s newest outrage — the ThinkPad W700. Containing enough computational artillery to level a small village, this for-creatives-only behemoth is designed for sheer pixel pushing… and little else. The system packs in two features aimed at graphic artists and photographers which are fairly unique to a laptop: a built in Wacom digitizer just to the right of the trackpad, and an on-board color calibrator. But what’s happening under the hood you ask? Well for starters the 17-incher sports the first ever Intel Quad Core Extreme CPU in a laptop (no word on speeds at this point) as well as the first showing of NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 3700 graphics chipset (with a hefty 1GB of memory on-board). The workstation also serves up dual hard drive bays configurable as RAID 0 or 1 (SSD or traditional disk, naturally), up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and an optional Blu-ray burner. Of course, that’s fully kitted out — the W700 starts at $2,978 and moves skyward from there. Take a look at our hands-on below and see the beast for yourself.
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August 11th, 2008 by
Filed under: Laptops
Like your laptops to be over-achievers? Like, the really annoyingly stacked variety of over-achiever? Enter Lenovo’s newest outrage — the ThinkPad W700. Containing enough computational artillery to level a small village, this for-creatives-only behemoth is designed for sheer pixel pushing… and little else. The system packs in two features aimed at graphic artists and photographers which are fairly unique to a laptop: a built in Wacom digitizer just to the right of the trackpad, and an on-board color calibrator. But what’s happening under the hood you ask? Well for starters the 17-incher sports the first ever Intel Quad Core Extreme CPU in a laptop (no word on speeds at this point) as well as the first showing of NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 3700 graphics chipset (with a hefty 1GB of memory on-board). The workstation also serves up dual hard drive bays configurable as RAID 0 or 1 (SSD or traditional disk, naturally), up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and an optional Blu-ray burner. Of course, that’s fully kitted out — the W700 starts at $2,978 and moves skyward from there. Take a look at our hands-on below and see the beast for yourself.
Update: The kids over at Notebooks dropped in some videos of W700 including the Wacom digitizer in action with Photoshop. Check it after the break.
Continue reading Lenovo intros the monstrous ThinkPad W700, and we get our hands all over it (updated with Wacom video demo)
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