Lenovo builds a super ThinkPad with a Wacom Tablet

13. Aug, 2008 Comments Off

This is actually a realistic alternative for creatives, to the usual MacBook Pro. I often here whinges from fellow designers, who for some strange reason prefer using Windows, who say that there aren’t any good alternatives to the MacBook Pro – as most Windows based laptops seem address the needs of business people and gamers and not those of designers, photographers or motion graphics artists.

So Lenovo comes along and releases the W700. We already know Lenovo ThinPad’s (formerly IBM ThinkPads) are well built and reliable notebook PC’s, they are the road warriors choice. What they’ve done here is put together a hi specification laptop, included a graphics professional level screen 17″ screen, included and numpad and the killer feature – a built in Wacom Tablet.

Granted, the Wacom tablet is on the small side, I do believe this is the first time we’ve seen a graphics tablet built into a notebook PC. And it comes in your favorite colour, as long as your favourite colour is black. And we know designers love black.

Don’t expect it to be cheap though, its touted to be USD$3k+ depending on your chosen configuration. It comes out in September this year.

Specs and details after the jump.

via Gadgetastic