Lenovo’s new ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation has been the first laptop ever to have a built in Wacom tablet. Aimed at graphic artists and photographers this beast is designed to really pack a punch. It presents a built in Wacom digitizer just to the right of the trackpad, and an on-board color calibrator. The digitizer pad can be mapped to the entire screen or to a defined area so you can manipulate images by hand. Above the digitizer pad sits an X-rite Pantone color sensor that’s capable of color-calibrating the display when the lid is closed, eliminating the need to carry a separate calibration device. True colors will be especially noticeable on the ThinkPad W700’s 17-inch WUXGA display, which offers 72 percent color gamut (meaning it can display 72 percent of the entire range of visible colors). Lenovo can only tell us the ThinkPad W700 will include a “next-generation Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processor” and the “latest Nvidia Quadro FX graphics.” The laptop can be for almost anyone willing to pay nearly $3,000 for the standard model. The options for multiple RAID configured hard drives (even SSDs), 8GB of RAM, a 3.0 GHz Core 2 Extreme quad core processor, and 1GB NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M graphics card are all available. It also has an optional Blu-Ray drive. With specs full keyboard, 7-in-1 card reader, optional Compact Flash reader, and 5 USB ports.
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