Take that, MacBookPro! This laptop will crush you...literally.

$1500 of the price is that damn Core 2 Extreme! I'm amazed they included a battery. They should have just thrown in a miniature 800w PSU and a nice psu cord until fuel cell technology can output that much power.

LOL, all show and no go!:
two gigs of "Intel Turbo Memory" flash magic for utterly imperceptible Windows Vista acceleration

Yes and I want to buy a battleship for casual lake cruising. Ye gods! that this is a monster.

At least you know if someone tries to attack you, you can use is as an instrument of mass, blunt force.

"Yes, Officer I clubbed the assailant to death."

"With your notebook computer?"

"Well, the only thing bigger I own would have been my refrigerator, but seeing as I wasn't carrying that with me..."

And a real number pad, that makes me moist

This is a really swell machine!

Ahhhh....
We are working our way back to our roots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Portable

Hopefully never, though an eInk keyboard would not be such a bad thing.

I'd really prefer they work on the FEEL of the keyboards (well, not the ThinkPads; they're already pretty good), but Apples MacBook and Sony's laptop keyboards are pretty awful to type on. Flat keys? Idiotic in the extreme. Form over function is a horrible thing in HCI.

It would also be nice for the lefties (not me), if someone would start making laptop keyboards that were a bit more modular (for the end user) to reconfigure slightly. Undo some screws or whatever, and move the letter/number keys over to the site, and swap positions of your arrow/home/end or numeric keypad keys. Flanders would love it, assuming he would use such a Devil's tool as a computer. By making that modular, you could put in the arrow/home/end keys in place of the numeric keypad, like I mentioned @14, as well as move them around. The upside for the computer laptop makers: more options, which have much higher margins. Make a generic interface for things that go in the keyboard space, and let someone put a mini Wacom in there, or eInk display, or whatever.

I used to own one of the original mobile workstations - a T42p. Excellent system, although a little heavy.

I think Lenovo should sell the Thinkpad brand back to IBM so they can start making excellent machines again. I liked the IBM-made ones far better.

The Core 2 Quad Extreme is not included in the base configuration. Neither are a lot of other things mentioned in the description above. It gets pricey *FAST*.

re: keyboard

I'd really like for 17" laptops to start including the keys on a regular keyboard like the arrow keys and the ones above (ins/del/home/end/PgUp/PgDn, and the three above those) rather than a numeric keypad. I *really* hate those keys being in abnormal locations. I use those a hell of a lot more often than I use the numeric keypad.

Two ThinkLight's too, what a beast!

http://lenovoblogs.com/designmatters/?p=223

Mother of ALL GODS! :O

Am I crazy to think that's a great price for the features?

I think Mike is on to something.

This is not a notebook, it's a deskbook.

The W700 is a "mobile workstation," which means it's a laptop capable of crushing both of your femurs, leaving you immobilized and helpless.

ROFL :)

I like the blue return/enter keys. Reminds me a bit of my old Amstrad CPC 464. If only the Esc key was red, and some of the others were green.

Bah. Give me the X200 or X300 any day over these 17" monstrosities.

LOVE the full size keyboard on that thing

Sweet Mother Nature, it's been a long time since I saw a laptop with an (almost) proper keyboard layout. Beautiful.