Lenovo Launches First Dual-Screen Notebook

After weeks of leaked product images and videos online, Lenovo today is officially announcing the world's first dual-screen notebook, the ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation. The ThinkPad W700ds offers users significantly more screen real-estate by combining a 17-inch screen and a second adjustable 10.6-inch display.

Two Screens Are Better Than One

Many workstation users, particularly photographers, typically work with two monitors. Keeping this in mind, Lenovo designed the ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation with two screens to eliminate the compromise of having only one display when operating in a mobile environment. Research has shown that extra screen real-estate with multiple monitors helps maximize user productivity versus single display solutions. Digital photographers can have an image open on the main screen and have all of the Photoshop tools open on the second screen so the image and the software don't have to compete for screen space. Measuring almost 40 percent of the 17-inch primary screen, the 10.6-inch second screen gives users extra screen real-estate close to the size of a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 netbook.

The second screen slides out from the display lid behind the primary screen, and it can also be tilted to fit a user’s viewing angle by up to 30 degrees. Despite the second screen with independent adjustments, the second display only adds a few millimeters of additional thickness to the single-display version of the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation.

The primary screen features an optional 400-nit WUXGA display which provides up to twice the brightness of earlier ThinkPad mobile workstations. The primary screen’s 72 percent wide color gamut enables more than 50 percent greater color intensity for better color accuracy.

Innovative Features and Performance ... and Did We Mention Two Screens?

Of course, while the second screen is likely why most people are interested in this notebook, the ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation still offers all the unique features and capabilities offered in the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation that included the industry’s first built-in digitizer and built-in color calibrator.

The optional digitizer is perfect for digital content creators as it provides high resolution, pressure sensitive control of the primary screen, the primary and the secondary screen or a specific defined area of either screen. Select models also come with a color calibrator that quickly and automatically adjusts the screen’s color to give true-to-life images and rendering 2D and 3D images, which are important items for managing color-critical work.

The ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation includes choices of Intel mobile quad core and extreme processors with optional dual hard drives with RAID configurations and is also available with NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile graphics. This mobile workstation offers up to 8GB of DDR3 memory and your choice of solid state drive storage and traditional hard disk drives for a maximum of 960 GB of possible total storage.

The ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation also comes with an optional DVD burner/player and high speed UDMA compact flash reader, support for Dual Link DVI, Display Port and VGA, a 7-in-1 multicard reader and five USB ports. In addition to WiFi, select models support WiMAX for staying connected away from the office. Security features include an optional fingerprint reader, a smartcard reader and hard drives with full-disk encryption.

Pricing and Availability

The ThinkPad W700ds mobile workstation is available immediately through www.lenovo.com and business partners. Pricing for models starts at $3,663.

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NotebookReview.com review of the ThinkPad W700

 

wooow

great lappy...

 

what's the resolution of the smaller screen?

 

hideous, plain hideous

 

/me doesn't like. i want a third screen on the left!!!



oh, and a left-handed version to paint on the left, too.

 

Wow. One word. Wow . . .

 

Offer a version with a second graphics card in place of the digitizer and you've got a dream gaming rig.

 

or one with both (and the 3rd screen on the left.. and a second digitizer on the left.. and touchscreens.. multitouch.. and active digitizer on all screens, too)

(and multiple webcams for multiconverencing or 3d-recording the hardcore way and 3d screens and uh and oh and ... )

(and make it not look lenovo like. i don't like that style.. and a 30bit colorscreen like on the hp would be cool, too..)


it's a great machine. but still far from crazy-awesome-perfect (but a big step closer)

 

Is that secondary display a normal LCD thats rotated? If it is, i suspect viewing angles are going to be a problem since vertical viewing angles (horizontal on this config) are usually the worst.

 

Adding a 3rd screen to the left and a high end gameing GPU would mike this an amazing set up.

triple displays on a laptop in the near future... thats going to be freaking sweet

 

Link from another forum for a video of the W700d in action:

 

This does not actually appear for ordering on the Lenovo site.

 

Does anyone have any actual screenshots of the machine?

That image from the OP looks hideous. I hope that "screen" sticking out to the right is a photoshop screw up just like the poor reflection of the notebook.
It looks hideously cheap but Lenovo is brave enought to add it on. Wouldn't something jutting that far out be easy to break?

Any actual screens of the machine?

 

One thing. COOL

And I like the 400nit screen

 

Well, it's a business notebook. It's supposed to look either plain or ugly, depending on the model.

Boy is this thing packing... It's more of a mobile desktop than anything.

 

Looks sick, but i do think the style of the notebook in general looks a little outdated, but knowing Lenovo they are putting a really quality piece of technology on the market. Now in the article it said the screen could be tilted but in that video the guy said the screen was locked in place, i would hope that the screen could be rotated or that would be a bit annoying.



Still mega cool though.

 

Wawn't the Fujitsu you guys reviewed the first with two screens?

 

Just saw this lappy on maximum PC website and have to say I think it's the future of laptops. Absolutely superb technology especially when we are able to have multiple OLED screens which all slide out - above, both sides etc.

Really quite exciting to see where the industry goes with this.

 

This is a very specialized system that is almost guaranteed to barely sell at all. Very odd method, include every feature we can possibly think of, and hope someone will buy it.

The problem is that not really any of these new features are done particularly well. The photo also demonstrates why I think matte screens are terrible, reflections that actually keep you from seeing anything on the display, as well as the graininess.

Lenovo's Ideapad group is doing far more interesting things in my opinion. I don't think anyone in any particular industry would go for something like this.

 

I seem to be getting a 404 error when I click on this link.

Thanks

 

can you imagine if someone is looking at your screen you could just pull that out

 

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/...-category-id=F10AD59D781A47888400957242FCF7F8

 

nice link this lenovo is well worth the money for only roughly 3 grand? Thats pretty crazy for 2 screen

 

It might not sell much, but its a prototype of a new laptop design.

One i hope most of the companies adopt and start giving up tri screen laptops.

 

Yeah can't wait for this to become de facto!