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Lenovo W700ds Laptop Sports an Extra Screen for Working Big on the Road
Lenovo w700ds

With the w700ds, Lenovo had a clear goal: To build a mobile workstation that would give photographers as much performance and power as any desktop station. To do that, the company gave the w700ds gave it a wide color gamut screen, a built-in color calibrator and a Wacom capacitive digitizer for touching up photos. Of course, the laptop's much-anticipated feature is its slide-out screen (hence the "ds" in the computer's name), which abeds the primary 17-inch monitor with a secondary 10.6-incher (great for keeping Photoshop tabs, or an IM or email window). Yes, it's heavy (11 pounds), and very expensive (expect to pay in excess of $3,600 for most configurations), but if photography and graphic design are you're livelihood, the ability to take your work on the road without sacrifices may make it worth it. And for the rest of us, a dual-screen laptop is just plain cool. —Seth Porges

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