Lenovo Unveils ThinkPad W700 Mobile Workstation

17.02.2009
Lenovo has announced the debut of ThinkPad W700, the first-ever 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation engineered to deliver unparalleled performance to data and graphics-intensive user environments. The ThinkPad W700 supports the upcoming Intel mobile quad core processor, thus benefitting users with the highest level of mobile workstation, power and performance. In line with Lenovo's environmental commitments, the ThinkPad W700 meets and exceeds criteria for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Energy Star 5.0 program for computers, which takes effect in July 2009.

"Given the specific and intensive needs of niche user segments like photographers and digital designers, we have created the ultimate mobile workstation." said Jaivinder Singh Gill, Executive Director, Commercial Business, Lenovo India. "Lenovo has packed the ThinkPad W700 with sheer power, performance and cutting-edge innovation, thus, providing the perfect mobile solution for our users. We believe that the ThinkPad W700 will revolutionize and outperform the industry with its optimized speed, unmatched stability and ultimate visual experience."

According to IDC, the compounded annual growth rate for the worldwide mobile workstation market has been more than 60 percent per year since 20021. The ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation extends Lenovo's commitment to workstation users, complementing Lenovo's W500 mobile workstation and ThinkStation S10 and D10 workstations. As workers in fields such as digital content creation, computer-aided design and manufacturing, digital photography and science fields including the oil and gas industries become increasingly mobile, they are demanding the full-featured performance of a desktop workstation in a mobile workstation.

Lenovo and Intel have collaborated for taking customer driven innovation to new heights and have integrated a colour calibrator and digitizer into the ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation. Ideally designed for digital content creators and users, the mobile workstation's digitizer helps one to easily configure an image, either mapping it to the entire screen or to an area defined by the user. High performance users, especially digital photographers, will benefit from models with the built-in colour calibrator as colour continues to play an important role in their work. The calibrator automatically adjusts the display's colour in up to half the time of many external calibrators and with higher accuracy, resulting in the most accurate, true-to-life images in an integrated package. Together with the upcoming Intel® mobile quad core processor, multimedia designers and animators can now gain from outstanding quad-core processor performance and true colour replication that is critical for realistic digital creations and workflow efficiencies.

"The Lenovo ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation is a great example of the type of innovation that has been developed utilizing Intel's most advanced processors," said Gopal Swaminathan, General Manager, OEM Business, Intel South Asia. "The Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme quad-core processor delivers the ultimate computing performance for mobile professionals, and we are very pleased to partner with Lenovo for its newest mobile workstation."

The ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation is available through www.lenovo.in and Lenovo business partners. Pricing starts at Rs. 1,49,000 (US$3,056).