Lenovo Dual-screen Laptop: W700ds ThinkPad
Lenovo, China's No.1 computer manufacturer, has launched the world's first dual-screen laptop W700ds ThinkPad (pictured above), which is equipped with a slide-out display to the notebook's main 17” screen. It's fantastic, but I will not buy it any time soon, reasons? Read excerpts from Tgdaily's review:
The privilege of owning one of these notebooks comes at a price – in terms of weight, battery life and money.
[W700ds ThinkPad,] packs an additional 2 lbs and weighs about 11 lbs. Add the power adapter and you are at 13 lbs and even that may not be the final word, especially if you are adding a second or third hard drive.
Prices for a W700ds base model start at just under $3700, while a quad-core model with Nvidia’s workstation graphics chip will break the $5000 barrier. Add more memory and max out the storage space and you will see a bottom line that exceeds $6000.
There are plenty of reviews of the W700ds already available on the web and it appears that this system is not exactly as mobile as your average notebook. Not only is it bulky and heavy, its battery time is also well below two hours - if both screens are used. The battery times published in the reviews we have seen range from about 95 to 110 minutes with a standard 9-cell battery.
If you are curious what that second display fits to do? Below are answers:
The main screen offers a resolution of 1920 x 1200, the smaller screen (which can be angled towards the user) 768 x 1280, which is about 40% of the screen real estate of the main display. Realistically, the 768 pixel width is not enough to comfortably browse web pages or to edit text documents, presentations or large spreadsheets. In everyday use, the display may be limited to secondary applications such as instant messaging, video calls or emails.
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