Lenova has released the ThinkPad W700 laptop aimed at photographers and designers, offering a built-in graphics tablet and color calibrator. What’s more, the display displays 72% of the possible color gamut of the Adobe RGB color space whereas most normal laptop displays can only show 45%. This 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation is bundled with the new Nvidia Quadro FX 2700M and 3700M Open GL graphics processors with up to 1GB of video memory. It also features up to 8GB of high speed DDR3 memory, optional dual hard drives with RAID configurations, a 7-in-1 built-in card reader, a range of wireless connectivity options and multimedia capabilities including an optional Blu-ray DVD burner/player.

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Got a bit excited about that beast, eh?

I love it that it has a quad core CPU built in! I need a laptop with 4 cores. No, really. The display looks awesome too. If it ran OS X I might be tempted.

Of course it also weighs 8.3 lb so it's not so much a laptop as it is a desktop that you can carry around.

Conspicuously absent from the fluffy press release is any info on battery life. With a Core 2 Quad extreme CPU (mobile), dual hard drives, 17" display, and the most serious graphics card you can squeeze into a laptop I wouldn't be surprised if it's less than an hour. Or maybe it doesn't even have a battery?!