Lenovo has always been a brand most associated with business notebook and desktop computers. Lenovo did recently start selling notebook and desktop computers aimed at the consumer market in the US. Despite that, Lenovo is still mostly associated with business users and that market is what it is known for.

Lenovo is looking to capitalize on its business market with the new ThinkPad notebook called the W700. The W700 is a 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation aimed squarely at the business user needing lots of power in a somewhat portable form factor. Lenovo says that its W700 is the first notebook in the industry to deliver a built-in digitizer and color calibrator.

The W700 can be optioned with up to 8 GB of high-speed DDR3 memory, optional Blu-Ray DVD burner/player, and dual hard drives with RAID configurations. Business users needing this much power in a notebook can choose between NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 2700M and the 3700M OpenGL graphics processors, both with up to 1 GB of dedicated video memory. Lenovo also offers an optional 400-nit WUXGA display with twice the brightness of earlier ThinkPad models providing 72% wide color gamut. The ThinkPad W700 will be available in September starting at $2,978.

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