Until recently Lenovo was an exclusively business oriented notebook maker. Lenovo has sold consumer oriented notebooks and desktop computers in its native China for a long time. Recently, Lenovo has moved into the consumer market in the United States and other countries as well, but it is still better known for its ThinkPad line of business-oriented notebooks.

Today, Lenovo announced its newest ThinkPad notebook computer aimed at the mobile workstation market called the ThinkPad W700. The new ThinkPad features a 17-inch widescreen LCD and brings the industry’s first built-in digitizer and color calibrator to the mobile workstation market. The notebook also uses other new technology including the upcoming Intel mobile quad-core processors and optional dual hard drives with RAID Configurations.

The ThinkPad W700 can be configured with up to 8 GB of high-speed DDR3 memory, optional Blu-Ray DVD burner, and a range of wireless connectivity options. Graphics for the system are via NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 2700M or 3700M OpenGL graphics processors with up to 1 GB of dedicated video memory available. Lenovo says the ThinkPad W700 will be available in September with models starting at $2978.

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