Come on Lenovo, we need a modern version of this, imagine it, all this brought into 2020, TB3 all over, HDMI, DP, 4k and full HD touchscreens and a full tablet screen on the wrist-rest, RTX Quadro, like a TB of ram, screw logic!

"The touch bar on the macbook pro......by the way lenovo did it first" lol

Back in the late 00's I requested a new PC with at least a 17" screen from my employer. What turned up was a W700 running Vista that crashed every hour and was basically useless. I made requests to the IT dept. to sort it, but nothing really happened. So for about 6 months it just sat on my desk and didn't get much use. Then I decided to forget the IT department and sort it myself. So I launched the Lenovo System Update (several times after successive installs and reboots) and it downloaded a shed-load of updates which took the best part of a day. However once completed I had a completely different machine at my fingertips. I grew to bloody love that laptop. So much so that when I left the company I bought it from them. I fitted the full 8GB of RAM and installed Win7, it served me well. Unfortunately I lent it to someone who didn't appreciate it's awesomeness and I got it back in many pieces, hey ho. Anyway it was very similar to the dual screen you had there. Mine had a 1920x1200 display with colour calibrator, graphics tablet and the QX9300 processor. Anyway great video, thanks :-)

Here I was thinking Nintendo has the only ds. Didn't expect a thinkpad would have one. 😂

I've been waiting for this day ever since I watched the orignal W700 (non ds) review. Finally!

So I have a W700ds, I wanted to mention that on Windows 7 the secondary screen will adjust it's brightness in unison with the Main display. In Windows 10 I haven't gotten this working yet. I beleive I installed one of the power management drivers from Windows 7 to get this function working.

I just imagine the wall street trader being so happy for that extra space back in 2008, since it looks perfect for an order book :)

i feel like if this style of laptop were ever to make a comeback it would fit really well on those chunky gargantuan gaming laptops, it specifically could benefit streamers a lot who need a second monitor for their chat or whatever else they need.

I'm a huge fan of the W series because i love the fact that they are so rare. I love to own something that very few others people have. BUT... i have to admit that Sebi made some very very good points about the viability of these machines especially if they are running Windows 10. I'm glad he took the time to do a more complete review of the DS variant as it will always have a special place in history from Lenovo.

That second screen looks to be the same aspect ratio as a standard piece of printer paper. So I think the design emphasis was to be able to display a document it for reference while you worked on the main display. This also could explain the lack of overall quality of that second screen. It strikes me as something that would be a very niche use case, maybe in the legal profession.

Think pads are my favorite breed of laptop computers. They have features I’ll never think of (either old or new ones).

A DS with two screens ? Not the first one I have seen

I finally found the W701 from the recycler last week. Seriously in good condition except for a dead battery.

A great display for Discord or even a twitch stream chat, definitely a collectors piece at this point but I would still love to use one in person one day.

I collect vintage computers - and the W701ds is one of the systems in my collection. I just (today) got the predecessor all ThinkPads - the IBM PC Convertible. IBM's first battery-powered PC. Look it up, it's an odd beast. From the front, when open, it looks *sort* of like a modern laptop, only there is a lot more machine sticking out the back behind the display hinge. The insane thing? It's still smaller than the W700-series! When placed on top, the longest dimension is about an inch shorter, and the narrow dimension is near-equal. (Maybe 1-2mm difference.) The PC Convertible is thicker, though - as incredible as that seems. The Convertible does have a rather obviously/hilariously worse screen. 640x200 monochrome black and white, with no backlight, and a viewing angle worse than the 700ds' slide-out screen. Also only 512 kb of memory. Kilobytes. Not megabytes. Not gigabytes. (My W701ds is maxed out with 32 GB.) Two 720kb floppy drives. That's it. No hard drive at all. (My W701ds has two 1 TB SSDs, plus the DVD burner, plus an SD slot, plus a CardBus slot, plus an ExpressCard slot. With 1 TB SD cards in each of those slots with proper adapters, I can add 3 TB of removable storage. Sadly, Lenovo never made a Blu-ray drive for this model. Although apparently a slimmer one will fit with a gap above it.)

After coming across this video, I realized I own one but have not used for sometime. The secondary screen is awesome for programmers

Thinkpad laptop with built-in numeric pad is the most cursed non-cursed thing i've ever seen.

Not seen a laptop with a built-in graphics tablet before so you really do learn something new every day! OMG I wasnt expecting the second screen to pop out like that, now that's really cool :)

I actually am the one who bought the first W700 EBay listing you showed lol

I´m in awe at the size of this lad. *A B S O L U T E U N I T*

If it has left right additional screen. It just any programmer dream

I wish we had a modern version of this man, just imagine

I honestly think, no pun intended, that this can be a solid desktop replacement.

2000: My T20 is the best ThinkPad now. Love IBM 2008: Wow, the most powerful ThinkPad is here! 2 screen! 2020: (laugh so hard with P73) 2040: I miss the W700ds.

I like what is clearly the Model M buckling spring sound for the intro

I’m a simple man. I see a PCC, I like.

Companies will release this type of laptop in the future and call it revolutionary!

i didn't even know this existed ... and that touch bar?!?!?!!!!!!!! i've been living a lie!

What if, in an alternate universe, 51nb made an upgrade kit for these beasts, like the X62, T70, X330, and X210(0)? Maybe an upgrade to the display, motherboard, a more updated I/O, and a better Intel vPro CPU/Nvidia GPU would be nice. Too bad they won't be doing ThinkPad mods anymore after the X2100...

That ain't a ThiccPad, that's an Extra ThiccPad!

I sooo want a laptop with a second portrait screen like this. I like that the new duo is bringing dual screens into the public view

Nice video, I think this is a very unique machine. I hope to come across one sometime for a low price.

Watching this on my w701ds

I imagine that second screen being of awesome use nowadays, wouldn't laptop manufactures mimic Apple all the time by making their devices as slim as a piece of paper you you can' neither fit much in their or replace things. Having the second screen for things such as source code or Discord while you run your program or browse the web on the main screen without to have to attach another screen still sounds great to me, albeit those docking stations exist for a reason after all.

Well, at least we now know where the Einstein who designed the 701 butterfly keyboard went for his next project.

This thing is way better than any alienware.

My t440p that I modded has a second screen that is the exact same size as the main one and only adds roughly 8mm of thickness.

That second screen would be good for mobile app development and testing as it's roughly the same aspect ratio as a phone screen.

Wow that second screen would be awesome for cheating on online exams

This monitor is pefect for streamers to see Twitch chat hahah

11:14 Good movie choice. I see you're a man of culture as well.

The Swiss Army knife of Thinkpads

Might as well just glue two screens and a keyboard+trackpad to a desktop computer. Lol.

Gosh, you're the man ! your reviews beat any reviews out there. I wish you could do some of the newer models (ie : thinkpad p73) as there aren't many reviews on KZfaq.. Anyway, thanks for the upload and the serious work you've put on them videos.

that duel screen is cool as hell.why don't we even have actual monitors with this function?

I wouldn't exactly call windows 10 a bloated operating system. It basically restored life into many of my older computers back in 2015. It runs circles around windows 7/8.

I can imagine that people were using the additional display for IRC Chat window XD

the side screen would be really good for streaming because you can have the chat on the side or discord.

I'd honestly love to see a more modern laptop implement this sort of design, especially considering how much slimmer laptops have gotten.

This should be named Lenovo ThiccPad

so upgradable and now you can't even change ram anymore

Possibly one of my favorite Think...uh I mean Thiccpad. (Also I love you pointing out the X1 Carbon..."touchbar", or rather "adaptive display" or something.) Edit: have you heard of Transnote? That weird Thinkpad disguised as some sort of leather-bound folder?

the second screen may be very useful for programming when you haven't a second screen for example in library or at university

Razer actually showed off a prototype a few years back at CES, but the prototype allegedly got stolen, and they stopped working on it. Was really cool to see though, a 3 screen laptop

Awesome machine, I've always wanted to play with one of these!

I have this laptop without the tablet feature. I got it at a great price. It's gathering dust atm. I'm only keeping for it's unique dual screen display. Great review.

I can’t believe how thick that thing is, 12 POUNDS?!

Bruh I am starting to think older laptops are better than the new ones. I just compared it with a MacBook and I swear if it is cheap enough I would buy ThinkPads...

The thiccpad

That would be awesome for just media consumption. Portrait screens I've found have always been nicer for scrolling through text.

Me: *the THICCPAD*

Never knew they made this

more of a ThinkBrick than Pad at this point... doubles as self-defense weapon. 2nd screen looks cool but hard to imagine how useful that could be.

After watching this video I have dropped the idea of buying this laptop.

that is a noice streetcar in the background

Nice review again, I love this one, very creative design and its 12 years ago!. Personally I think for today's programming or or needs 8GB max. RAM prevented me from buying it

The butterfly keyboard thinkpad is much cooler. How the screen controls how the keyboard unfolds is so geniusly good! I think that is actually worth buying!

The PSREF for the W700ds shows there was an option for a 128gb SSD, however, the SSDs offered were uSATA installed in standard SATA caddy. Also, the SSD shown in the video has a Dell PN (G295T) so its been upgraded. support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd002997

IF ONLY THEY MADE ONE WITH 3, WHY NOT 3 WHYYYYYAAAAAAAAHHHHHH .

The legendary ThinkPad! :D

Drop this thing on a 2019 macbook pro , I think the aluminium unibody of a macbook is not enough this thing is a tank

Great laptop to put my sister out cold in a coma

1 more screen on the other side would have been better, one for email, one for business software, another one for video calls.

I've been trying to find one of these dual screen Thinkpads for a while now, but can't justify the price!

I have liked this model since I was a junior high school student, but I chose a different model because of its high performance. It's a very unique model, so I want to buy a good one! (The text may be terrible because it is a Google translation)

if only they made a P70 series machine with a smaller pop-out screen on the side like this one.....

Damn that price is also *T H I C C

It was the heyday of the Thinkpad.

A very interesting review of a very interesting laptop. AND, it came from Bethel Park!

I did not know this was a thing and I need one now. *looks at used price* I did not know this was a thing but I don't need one.

I've been looking for a W700ds review since I saw that alleged banned commercial lol

I love that I can put a USB 3.0 ExpressCard in my W700, it means I can dock it with a recent ThinkPad USB 3.0 dock and have loads of USB 3.0 ports. The laptop still works so well and I've had mine since 2008! I've upgraded it with an SSD which makes it so much faster than with an old spinning HDD too. It's funny but I have no problem using the Huey Pro software for the calibrator on Win 10 64 bit, I just got the drivers for that from the Lenovo End of Life website.

*The person who stole the razer prototype* wants to know your location

Hmmm I wonder if theres a triple screen one

The built-in drawing tablet and color calibrator are almost more interesting than the second screen.

I have a W700. It's the largest screen with the classic keyboard. Use it every morning for work.

In a way, the X1 fold is the his if you think about it. Ignoring the abysmal performance of an air cooled intel chip. Being able to get a larger screen by sliding out or unfolding a “second” display.

the THICCPAD

30th, Huh you're the first youtuber to ever mention Mercari along with ebay and craigslist...

I have a fully loaded regular W700, but i have so much trouble getting it to work, because i'd need to spend 182 cad to even get it running (display, charger, battery) and as a broke high school it's a bit much. Though i also don't want to leave it sitting because i feel like soon i wont be able to get any parts for this beast of a machine.

I would love to pick one of theses up just for how quirky it is

Hey Sebi, appreciating your videos. Nice work. I know you mentioned that the T430 is your favorite, however, if you'd have to pick just one Thinkpad with a full numeric keyboard, (older or newer) which would it be?..and why? Thanks in advance.

Hey, how you enabled flashlight on that laptop? My laptop is (ThinkPad T420)

Wow! I have never seen W700 series! It is awesome and I want one... :D

Best Second Screen alternative : sidecar on Catalina with ipad and mac

Razer be like: Write that down, write that down!

Oh boy, i know some 17" HP back in the day, those was some thiiiiiic ones.

A beast of a machine, thanks for the video. I am from Colombia and I also a Thinkpad fan. I have 760XL and soon a 770X that I bought from eBay. Also I have some 380XD and 600 parts and a t400 that needs a mainboard replace. When I worked on small computer shop back in 2006, i received a bunch of TransNotes from a company to do maintenance and some repairs, definitely the rarest Thinkpads that I have my hands on.

i really want a multi screen laptop. *i would have paid a fuck-ton of money for razer's 3 screen* but, im not gonna pay over 1000 for a lower spec laptop with no real support or parts.

Maybe it's not the most practical laptop but for sure it's the coolest one out there