The Lenovo Dual Screen Laptop. How Would You Use It?

by Josh on December 23, 2008 · Comments

dual-screen-laptopI’m telling ya, you wake up one morning and screens are just sliding out all over the place. Soon they’ll be yelling, ‘touch me!’, ‘no, touch me!’ – but for now look what Lenovo is sliding out to the masses January 5th at CES.

The Lenovo W700ds. A laptop with a slide-out secondary screen. Magnificent, don’t ya think? Kinda malignant tumor looking, but with the specs this thing has, you could run a little 3D modeling, a little video editing and more. Check it out.

Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds (“ds” for Dual-Screen) Specs
17″ primary screen
10.6″ secondary WXGA screen (768px by 1280px)
2.26GHz Quad-core Intel Core 2 processor
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700
Up to 8GB of DDR3 memory
2 solid-state 480GB hard-drives (RAID capable)
Runs XP, Vista and will support Windows 7
Weight: 11 lbs
Price: starting at $3,600

Dual Screen for CAD
Do you use Dual Screen mode. SolidWorks picked up support for it with 2009, Rhino in 4.0 – a lot of users were demanding it, but how do you actually use it? For toolbars? documents? To me it almost makes more sense to have the keyboard slide out instead and have two full-sized screens. Soon enough I imagine. Before long, the keyboards will go away and virtual keyboards will be part of a secondary touchscreen OLED display. You know it’s true. Here’s some nice pics.
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Via Dvice, Images via Eweek

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Tagged as: 3d cad, displays, future, interface

  • mingsish
    That extra little screen is gonna fall off the first time i throw it down the stairs. Alls i need is a nigh invulnerable 22" screen bright yellow laptop with rubber rubstrips and corner bumpers...and it's got to weigh less than 16 lbs and handle a saltwater environment well.
  • Throwing your laptop down the stairs is not good anger management. You need to develop a plan to destroy much less valuable objects the remove the stress and anger. Such as deep sea fishing which would tie into the saltwater enviroment spec you listed.
  • It's actually for his underwater lair and seahorse army, which isn't helping with the anger management, but is doing a lot for advance technology and all.
  • mingsish
    My offer still stands. You can be the head henchman in evil henchman army. Rod is welcome too. But if you guys start making crazy demands I'll replace you with your non-union robot equivalents.
  • Well, as long as I can have Spongebob and Patrick for my lietenants I am in.
  • For my applications at work, this is easy. SW on main screen. The side screen would have our AS400 MAPICS running + Excel for my part number tracking that I do + FF all tiled horizontally. That would do it for me. The other item I would add would be this http://tinyurl.com/8x7sqr , Run your Twitterr app on this.
  • DOOOOD - you forgot the Tablet man, the TABBER LETT MAN... its built right in next to the trackad - whadda ya make of that then?

    Al
  • arrrg, darg it. The tablet area. NICE. I can definitely imagine getting some use out of that, but I think I'd still prefer the Wacom Cintiq 21" (btw, working the PR on that thang)
  • Hi Al,
    I'm still waiting for the paper thin folded laptop with no keyboard to come out. One that can be unfolded onto a large flat surface that can do it all. Larger the better for these older eyes. Do you think that is coming soon buddy? I'm not getting any younger.
  • Al, you just took it to the next level. I'm imagining the Cintiq sliding out from underneath. OR maybe even the screen IS the Cintiq and you can just do your business right there. It'd be more compact that way.
  • This would be great for all my micro-blog desktop clients...however I am not sure if they will all fit! Yammer, Twit Army, The HEaRD and Twitter...who knows how many more will be in the future...or I could put my SolidWorks Command manager and task pane over there.
  • Robert Anderson
    How would I use it? I'd install MacOSX!
  • Jon
    Interesting... I don't recall if it was HP or Lenovo or who it was that had a Laptop Design competion thing going about a month ago, but interestingly enough my entry included the wacom like tablet and the flip out second screen with ram upwards of 8 or more gigs. Hmm...

    Anyway, surpised the article didn't mention the pad and doesn't mention if the second screen small is all that it supports or if it supports a tirtiary monitor hung off a cable. Also, while it's a 17" montitor, unless it's running at 1900x1200 it's not much use to me do 3d and photoshop. If it was at a high rez it would be worth considering, but come on.... only a core 2 and not a quad core and only a single graphics card? Desktop replacements have had better specs other than the included HD's and built in second screen for some time now.
  • Now that is nice. Really nice. Having been born way before TV's ever came along, I have seen a lot of new things and this will go down as one of the nice ones. I guess it is appropriate in this day of age to remark by saying Wow, that is really cool. :)
  • Wow! This thing is perfect! It's the main reason i can't stand using a laptop. I'm too used to my dual monitors. Maybe I'm taking a mile with the inch they are giving but i wonder how possible it would be to have a full size 2nd monitor... Very cool indeed
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