Lenovo ThinkPad W700

portability, performance, usability, design, keyboard

screen, size, price

67% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Lightweight, for such a large notebook ; Excellent drawing tablet

Angle of view on LCD is pretty narrow ; Enormous power brick

The ThinkPad W700 may look understated--and it's a bit of a kitchen-sink approach to computing--but it's a top-flight notebook. For on-the-go graphics artists, or those looking for the ultimate mobile workstation, it's hard to beat

Lightweight, for such a large notebook ; Excellent drawing tablet

Angle of view on LCD is pretty narrow ; Enormous power brick

With a workstation's power (and price) in an understated package, the W700 is built for road-ready graphic artists.

Digitizer and color calibrator set a new bar for features in a notebook. Top notch performance all around. Unbeatable screen brightness at this size

Seems bigger than it needs to be: Lid is 20 inches diagonally to fit a 17 inch screen. 87 minutes of battery life is 84 more than the W700 will ever spend on and unplugged. DVD playback stuttered and ultimately crashed the system during our tests....

Internal Pantone color calibrator. Palm-rest digitizer. Option for a cool secondary display. Quad-core processor delivered amazing results. Dual hard drives. Excellent performance scores. ISV certified graphics. Outstanding graphics for gamers and...

Butt ugly and bulky

The Lenovo ThinkPad W700 delivers a ton of wow features, including an internal color calibrator, a palm-rest digitizer, and an option for a secondary screen.

Robust chassis; Extensive connection options; 3 year warranty ex-factory; Win XP and Vista available; User-friendly touchpad/trackpoint combination; Integrated graphic tablet available; Bright display with good contrast; Integrated colorimeter...

Typing behavior needs getting used to; Mediocre display illumination; Mediocre performance in single applications benchmarks; Low battery life

With a good business image: HP EliteBook 8730w, Dell Precision M6400; possibly the flossy barebones, for instance from Nexoc, Schenker Notebook, or Deviltech.

Quad-core performance offers a desktop-esque experience ; Solid Lenovo keyboard, touchpad ; Built-in digitizer a handy addition ; Color calibration console couldn't be simpler ; Impressively rugged build for a 17 inch system

Display doesn't quite meet lofty expectations ; Speaker audio makes everything sound like a Paul Harvey broadcast ; Supplied pen is small, feels cheap ; I don't have a spare $4,333.30

Like so many things in life, it all depends on who you ask

Color calibrator, Wacom tablet, quad-core and high color gamut screen

Big and bulky and the power brick is truly a brick

If we were to fire up the W700 alongside those old P4 notebooks of yore, the performance differences would be astounding. Ultimately that’s what it comes down to with mobile workstations – performance. And if performance matters to you for your job, we...

Fast ; Powerful ; Plethora of options ; Solid construction ; Much lighter than the equivalent workstation

Price ; Weight ; Bulk ; Fingerprint reader not active in 64-bit OS despite driver being installed (faulty reader?)

Despite its weight and high price, the Thinkpad delivers on its promise of being a portable digital darkroom. Any serious amateur or professional photographer would do well to add this unit to his/her arsenal. Granted, a new Macbook Pro weighs 2.3 lbs....