Is a Dual Screened Laptop a Great Idea?
December 19, 2008 (Computerworld) Lenovo Group Ltd. today announced the release of a ThinkPad laptop that takes the “desktop replacement” category of notebook PCs to a new level.
The ThinkPad W700ds appears to be the first laptop ever to sport two LCD screens — a 17-in. primary and a 10.6-in. secondary screen.
The souped-up “mobile workstation,” as Lenovo calls it, also comes with customers’ choice of quad-core Intel Core 2 processors and Nvidia Quadro mobile graphics CPU with as many as 128 cores. It also comes with as much as 8GB of DDR3 laptop memory and a pair of hard drive/solid-state drive bays for up to 960GB of storage.
It’s all in an 11-lb. brick — five times the weight of netbooks, such as the Asus Eee 701, and at least double the weight of typical laptops — that is encased in the ThinkPad’s trademark ebony exterior.
“This is the nitro-burning drag racer of ThinkPads,” said Craig Merrigan, vice president of global consumer marketing at Lenovo, in a briefing this week.
The W700ds is expected to be available in January starting at $3,600.
What the Jorge? would a dual screened laptop do to help anything? I used a dual screened computer when I was working as a Receptionist because the phone system was computer operated, which is a legit excuse to use dual screens. What other professions is there that could effectively use dual screens? Especially something as potable as a laptop.
