“The Beast” is the nickname I’ve picked for the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds, which has dominated my test bench for the past two weeks. A massive machine — my test unit measures a healthy 16.1 by 12.2 by 2.1 inches — the W700ds is what you might call a LINO: laptop in name only. No sane businessperson would haul one of these 11-pound monstrosities around (13 pounds with the power brick), which is just fine with Lenovo. The W700ds isn’t aimed at the run-of-the-mill ThinkPad crowd, but at the extreme mobile customer: hard-core graphics artists and power users who need to run high-end 3-D workstation applications. For these rarefied souls, the W700ds provides an attractive slate of unique features.

First, the basics: The W700 series is Lenovo’s answer to the mobile workstation segment, a category of high-end “luggable” systems characterized by support for various Extreme Edition Intel CPUs — including the quad-core QX9300 in my test rig — and 8GB or more of RAM.

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