Has anyone received a W701

Hi all,


Has anyone received a W701 yet, need input on this one…


Thank You,

 

Hi all

Wow I guess I’ll be the first...

CPU: Intel i7-920XM
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
Display: 17" WUXGA RGB-LED-BL
Graphics: NVIDIA FX 3800M
RAM: 8GB 1333MHz to start, I will get 8GB 1333MHz from New egg.

Ultranav + Number Pad + Figerprint Reader + Pantone Color Sensor +
WACOM Digitizer + Camera

128GB SSD, will get 128GB OCZ.
500GB HDD 7200rpm, for DATA

Multi Recorder
Compact Flash (PCIe) + Express Card

Intel Ultimate-N 6300 (3x3 AGN)

230W Brick + Mini-dock


I hope it works with Autodesk products.

 

Wow! You have many portable workstations! Congrats! I wish I could afford one!

 

Hey Manny,

Please post your impressions when you get the W701.
I am going on vacation for 2 weeks next week and after that I will have to decide between the M6500 and W701.
I followed the whole huge M6500 thread and it makes me feel better to see it tested so thoroughly but I am still curious about the W701.

 

Hi fakeplasticblah,


What are you using?

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I work with a lot of Autodesk products, and I need to take my work to my
customers. I need a mobile workstation…

 

Could you run some tests and feed our full of envy eyes with pics, please?

 

Hi peon01,


You got it; I will give you an in-depth review of the W701 as soon as I get it…
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I like dell's M6500 as well… <O </O

 

Hi Aikimox,


I would be glad to run some tests on my W701…

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Which test would you like me to run? And do you have links to their
download pages, so I can set this up before my W701 arrives.


And yes; I will be taking a lot of Pictures of my new W701, not to worry and once I post the
pics, if you need to see more just let me know and I will post more…

 

Maybe you should start a magazine called playtop for Aikimox, hehehe, and have all your laptops wear a techno bunny suit and those without any fairings.....

on a more serious note, why did you decide to upgrade from W700 to a W701?

 

Does this mean you will be selling your W700??

 

Hi thinkpad knows best,


No,

My W700 had a series of problems that could not be solved, so Lenovo and I
decided it was time to send my W700 back to its mommy for safe keeping…

I think I took the W700 from its mother to soon; it needed to nurse a little longer,
so it could mature Into the W701... <O </O


lol...

 

I am very curious as to whether you are experiencing any heat issues. By going to gigabyte video cards, faster processors, and more memory, I would think there might be some heat problems, unless the design has somehow been changed for better cooling.

I am considering the W701, but want to hear from Lenovo W701 owners first.

Thanks for any info.

 

What were the problems that couldn't be solved..? The W700 had GB GPU's.. it doesn't really add that much heat to the overall package.

 

The W700 has great heat management system, and they don't run hotter than the W500.

 

I am a ChemE student at the moment but I'll gradute soon (2 months). I'll buy a workstation soon. Right now I use the T400 or the 2530p for CAD (Autodesk AutoCAD; P&ID, Inventor, Solidworks, CADworks, etc) but I've seen desktop workstations and they are blazing fast and stable so I thought my productivity would raise if I had a mobile workstation (I must have bought a W500 instead of the T400 but I had a good opportunity with the T400 when I bought it)

 

Just when I was saying I still wanted to keep W701 in the choice list, I went to the website and they are again back on 4 weeks backlog on the RGB screen. Grrr

 

You sure do a lot of CAD design for a chemical engineering student. When i was doing my chemical engineering degree, we just used HYSYS and Matlab, we hardly touched AutoCAD or the likes.

 

Hi all,

I’m sorry but I’m not going to get into what was wrong with the W700; it was just a lemon…
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I am in Engineering, I know those Chem class, killed me I have to take that class over.

My chem. Professor kicked butt and she tock names…<O </O
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Hi mannyA,

Did you get your W701?

 

Hi peon01,


Not yet, It ships on May 21, 2010

 

Man!!!!!

 

Hi peon01,


It just left Shanghai...



lol <O </O

 

I do use HYSYS, ChemCAD, Pro II and Matlab but recently I've found some Autodesk products useful for projects. It's nice to see some fellow chemical engineers here in the forum. Finally congratulations! You sure have a lot of Thinkpads (so jealous).

 

it is nice to see a fellow chemical engineer whom is also into Thinkpads...

 

I'll be very interested in a screen-to-screen comparison as far as the 2xCCFL WUXGA panel on the W700 vs. the RGB-LED backlit one on the W701.

 

mannyA,

The suspense is killing me. I have a T61p which I use for work and need to order a replacement. I am looking at W701 and would like to know what your first impressions are.
I need perormance for running a lot of std office apps plus VMWare images so I will be getting 8GB, the Intel Core i7-820QM Processor (8M Cache, 1.73 GHz) and 2 internal SSDs. with this perroamnce (for what I need) will not be an issue.

The thing I am most fussy about is.... the display!!! I am very curious how you like the WUXGA RGB-LED-BL display as that is the one I'm going to order.
On my T61p I currently have the 15" WUXGA+ 1920x1200 display and of course after gettting 2 years ago it I quickly realized that the dpi/fineness was too high for my eyes... I've had to deal with it and use a larger external display most of the time but was thinking that having the 17" display at same resolution (1920x1200) would probably feel just right.
ALSO... the brightness on the T61p display was 'not' good enough for me.

so... please pass along your feedback on the W701 and especially the display.

Thanks in advance!

 

Same here. Might be a US/UK thing?