New Two-Headed Laptop

by Taylor Flatt on January 5th, 2009 at 10:20 pm EDT - 302 views

What is it?

Lenovo’s new two-headed laptop featuring a 17″ and 10.6″ monitors weighing in at 11lbs. The ThinkPad W700ds’ 10.6″ monitor slides out from the side of the laptop making it truly unique and obtuse in design. I bet you could never guess the outrageous pricing for this design. For a meager $3,663 you can get the default minimum featured laptop.

“It is not for the typical notebook user but rather is targeted at one with a very specific requirement”, says Stephen Kleynhans, an analyst at Garner. “You aren’t going to open this thing up on an airplane tray table or even at the local Starbucks. It is for transportable use. It is geared at a content creator or engineer who needs to work somewhere other than a primary office but needs access to a high-performance workstation”, he continues.

Although this laptop is geared for more of a desktop performance, it still holds true to the laptop terminology of being actually portable. This is a great idea for a laptop, but at such a cost I wouldn’t even touch it. Frankly, I keep the dual setup for stationary items such as the PC. It only makes sense, however, when used in the right setting and way, this laptop can be just as effective as a stationary dual screened monitor.

Possible Features

• Intel’s mobile quad core
• Extreme processors
• Dual hard drives with RAID (redundant array of independent drives) configurations 
• Nvidia’s Quadro FX mobile GPU
• Up to 8 GB of high-speed DDR3 memory
• Choice of solid state drive storage or traditional hard disk drives with up to 960 GB of storage
• DVD disk drive
• High-speed UDMA (Ultra Direct Memory Access) compact flash reader
• Support for Dual Link DVI
• Display Port and VGA
• a 7-in-1 multicard reader and five USB ports
• WiFi with select models offering WiMax support
• Fingerprint reader
• Hard drives with full-disk encryption

Source: TechNewsWorld
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