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Lenovo plans to release the world first laptop that comes with a dual screen capabilities.early January next year as reported by computerworld.com. News of the new w700ds was supposed to be released on early January next year, however  details was leaked to the web community after the product page of the w700 series when online early. 

The Thinkpad W700ds from Lenovo’s W series which Lenovo described as “ultimate mobile workstation”, comes with the standard 17″ WUXGA TFT LCD like the other W700 series with the addition of a 10.6″ LCD.

This addition second screen is ideal for photographers, graphic artist with the ability to expand their mobility workspace to match their dual screen desktop setup.

In addition, the W700ds boost the same features of the W700 series such as a 120cm x 80 cm Wacom® palm-rest digitizer which work like an integrated graphic board, ideal for digital content creation, configurable to map to entire screen or user-defined area. It also come with a integrated color calibration to produce a greater color accuracy, perfect for digital photographers.

Palm-rest digitizer and pen

With its Graphical and Processing capabilities, this could be the next ideal mobility solution for digital artist and designer. eWeek  which seem to have their hands on a W700ds and have posted photographs of it running a photoshop in dual screen mode.

Technical Spec of W700ds(source IBM):

 (17" WUXGA & 10.6" WXGA TFT,
 Intel PM45 Express Chipset,
 NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700 (1 GB),
 Integrated camera, Bluetooth wireless,
 Integrated fingerprint reader,
 Integrated color calibration, Digitizer and pen,
 Intel Core 2 Duo T9600,
 320 GB / 5400 rpm, 320 GB / 5400 rpm,
 ThinkPad Blu-ray Disc Recordable,
 Compact Flash reader, ExpressCard slot, 4 GB,
 Intel Turbo Memory 4 GB,
 Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5300 AGN (3 x 3),
 Genuine Windows Vista Business, 9 Cell battery)