Lenovo ThinkPad W700

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Pros
Lightweight, for such a large notebook
Excellent drawing tablet
Cons
Angle of view on LCD is pretty narrow
Enormous power brick

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$2,299.00 - $2,630.00
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Performance: Good: 77
Features: Very Good: 83
Design: Superior: 92

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	404
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	357
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering	561
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	2:52:26 AM
Doom 3, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	114.43
Far Cry, 1024 by 768, 32-Bit	204.23
Firefox 2	294
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	370
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	202
Multitasking	360
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	470
Number of Included Batteries	1
Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5	205
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	212
WorldBench 6 Score	99
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Good

What You Should Know about the ThinkPad W700

Multitask to Your Heart's Content and Not Bog Down

This laptop, equipped with at least 3GB of memory, will run all of your programs quickly (paired with a high-end CPU, that much memory will make things especially speedy). You'll be able to multitask to your heart's content, too, so go ahead--you can back up the entire contents of your hard drive to a DVD while watching YouTube videos and experimenting with textures on the 2MB photo of your client's art gallery in Photoshop. The main drawback is the extra expense: Loading up with more than the standard amount of RAM (2GB, these days) can add hundreds of dollars to a laptop's price, though it boosts performance by only about 10 percent. Also bear in mind that if you hope to use more than 3GB of RAM effectively, your PC must have a 64-bit installation of Windows.