Thinkpad W700 and W500 have appeared on Lenovo's website!

[DesolataX]

They've shown up a lot quicker than I thought they would have!
The W700 starts at $2,978, and adding the Intel QX9300 costs an additional $1,275. The 15.4″ W500 starts at $1,629.
Go here for more info

Our ThinkPad W Series includes the new ThinkPad W500 as well as the new ThinkPad W700. Both offer lightning-fast Intel® Core™2 Duo technology, advanced NVIDIA® Quadro® FX MXM based graphics, cutting-edge technology features and the durability and rock-solid reliability you expect from Lenovo — making the W Series the ultimate mobile workstation.
Ultimate performance


* Powerful Intel® Core™2 processors with Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) offer superior performance along with enhanced management and security.
* Built for Windows Vista® to enable a premium user experience.
* Hard drives up to 320GB 5400rpm and up to 200GB 7200rpm with Full Disk Encryption (FDE) offer maximum security and storage.
* Solid State Drives (SSD) offer improved performance, reliability and battery life.
* High-performing DDR3 memory lowers power consumption.
* Intel® Turbo Memory helps speed boot time, loads applications faster and saves power.

Ultimate graphics experience

* ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations feature the NVIDIA® Quadro FX® MXM based graphics solution for unsurpassed mobile graphics processing and performance.
* OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) with up to 1GB of dedicated video memory enables graphic-intensive applications.
* High-resolution, premium WSXGA+ or WUXGA panels provide an improved viewing experience. The W500 features a 15.4″ display, and the W700 features a 17″ display.
* Next-generation DisplayPort technology provides clearer, crisper images and a larger viewing area.
* ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations offer X-Rite® PANTONE® color calibration for greater image accuracy, more precise color matching, and a consistently true display.



Palm-rest digitizer and pen

ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations offer a 120cm x 80cm Wacom® palm-rest digitizer and pen, ideal for digital content creation and CAD/CAM applications. The digitizer can be configured to map to the entire screen or a user-defined area, and is compatible with a wide range of applications, from Windows® Paint to Adobe® Photoshop®.

[Pocket Aces]

You're a bit late to the party, dude. They've been up for a couple of weeks now.

[First Light]

You're a bit late to the party, dude. They've been up for a couple of weeks now.

Ha! Yea, that's what I thought too. This guy must just be blindly spamming every site he can find without reading anything first.

[basketb]

This guy is actually reporting something that I (and probably many others) have not seen, heard, or read yet, namely:

ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations offer a 120cm x 80cm Wacom® palm-rest digitizer and pen...

I heard that the W700 is humongous, but imagine a laptop with a 120cm x 80cm integrated pen tablet. How big does the laptop have to be to accommodate this?

[qviri]

You're a bit late to the party, dude. They've been up for a couple of weeks now.

I don't remember, but they may not have been on Lenovo Canada's website.

Which incidentally returns an error when trying to view them now.

[Pocket Aces]

This guy is actually reporting something that I (and probably many others) have not seen, heard, or read yet, namely:

ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations offer a 120cm x 80cm Wacom® palm-rest digitizer and pen...

I heard that the W700 is humongous, but imagine a laptop with a 120cm x 80cm integrated pen tablet. How big does the laptop have to be to accommodate this?

This is a primary feature on the W700 that was introduced as soon as the W700 was.

[basketb]

I don't think they announced it with those measurements:
120cm x 80cm
use google if you need to convert it to inches .

[First Light]

I believe the digitizer pad size is listed in mm's, not cm's.

80mm x 120mm = approximately 3.2in x 4.7in.

[basketb]

Not in the post at the top of this thread.