Laptops of the future

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

While most of the world seems to be raving about netbooks and budget computing, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks hunkered down in the Labs, ploughing through the forthcoming Ultimate Laptop Labs test.

It’s been an illuminating test for many reasons – not least the chance to test a dozen of the world’s most extravagant notebooks – but one of the most interesting themes to come out of this particular Labs is that the march of progress is, indeed, inevitable.

This is plain to see by comparing the line-ups from issue 169’s Luxury Laptops Labs and the dozen machines that we’ve got lined up for our Ultimate Laptop face-off.

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Lenovo’s W700DS – the twin-headed laptop

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Lenovo may have already announced its latest laptop workstation, the hulking W700, but we only just recently caught a high-resolution glimpse of its more esoteric cousin, the W700DS.

Take a look at the pictures above and you can play a thrilling game of spot the difference. Is it the integrated Wacom graphics tablet lurking to the right of the trackpad? No, sorry, they both have one of those, try again. Is it the integrated X-Rite Pantone colour calibration sensor for discerning design professionals? No, you’re getting a teeny bit warmer though.

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