Dual Screen, 11 pound desktop replacement (I mean “Mobile workstation”), ThinkPad W700 – Not your father’s ThinkPad…

InfoWorld - Lenovo to release ThinkPad laptop with 2 LCD screens

“Lenovo Group Ltd. Friday 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-inch primary and a 10.6-inch 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 memory and a pair of hard drive/solid-state drive bays for up to 960GB of storage.

It's all in an 11-pound 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.

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The ThinkPad W700 series

The ThinkPad W700 series mobile workstation is thoughtfully designed to give users uncompromised performance, stability, and the ultimate visual experience

The ThinkPad W700 is the first mobile workstation to deliver:

• Intel Core 2 Extreme processors
• High-capacity RAID HDDs
• Integrated color calibration
• Onboard digitizer and pen

What's new

• Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q9100 processors
• 10.6-in diagonal second display panel
• Intel Turbo memory 4 GB support
• 4 GB memory DIMM

System features

• RAID DASD high-speed storage
• Integrated color calibration
• Integrated WACOM palm rest digitizer and pen
• Displays
  • 17-in WUXGA with CCFL backlight and 1920 x 1200 resolution
  • 10.6-in WXGA with white LED backlight second display and 768 x 1280 resolution
• High-performance mobile graphics:
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M, 512 MB dedicated video memory
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M, 1 GB dedicated video memory
• Intel Centrino® 2 with vPro and Core 2 Extreme technologies
• Intel PM45 Express chip set
• PC3-8500 double data rate 3 (DDR3) SDRAM 1067 MHz SODIMM high-speed memory
• Intel Active Management Technology 4.0
• WLAN: Intel WiFi Link 5300 AGN (3 x 3)¹
• 64 GB solid state drive (SSD) for fast, reliable, lightweight, energy-efficient storage
• DisplayPort
• Dual Link DVI
• Integrated camera

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Dual monitors on a notebook? Dude, that’s cool. Perfect for developers on the go (or who remote ;)

I wonder if I can talk work into getting me one of these when they ship?