With a lot of interest in dual-screen laptops and desktops recently, Lenovo is seizing the opportunity to lead the field with their newly announced dual-screen W701ds laptop.

The W701ds is powered by an Intel Core i7-820QM processor, the graphics by NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 2800M/3800M GPU, there’s a USB 3.0 port in addition to four USB 2.0, DDR3 RAM of up to 16Gb and both solid state and hard disk storage. A full size keyboard with trackpoint, a built-in overhead light for continued after hours keying and the option of a Wacom palm rest digitizer and pen cater for comfortable input.

Other features and options include color calibration, VGA/DVI out, eSATA, fingerprint reader, webcam, numeric keypad, Windows 7, compact flash and media card support. The W701ds comes in a format minus the second screen – the W701. (www.lenovo.com)

Published on March 3 2010