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Like your laptops to be over-achievers? Like, the so much annoyingly stacked variety of over-achiever? Enter Lenovo’s new outrage — the ThinkPad W700. Containing sufficient computational artillery to total number a miniature village, presently for-creatives-only behemoth is intended for sheer pixel pushing… and miniature else. The method packs in two portions aimed at graphic artists and photographers that are quite different to a laptop: a put up in Wacom digitizer simply to the correctly of the trackpad, and an on-board color calibrator. But what is taking place short of the hood you ask? Well for starters the 17-incher sports the chiefly regularly Intel Quad Core Extreme CPU in a laptop (no word on speeds at such point) as favorably as the first and foremost coming of NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 3700 graphics chipset (with a hefty 1GB of memory on-board). The workstation in addition serves up double hard push bays configurable as RAID 0 or 1 (SSD or traditional disk, naturally), up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and an optional Blu-ray burner. Of course, that is totally kitted out — the W700 starts at $2,978 and moves skyward from what i read in there. Take a check at our hands-on underneath and see the beast for yourself.

What’s a flagging microprocessor company to do after an absolutely tumultuous 2007 (and start to 2008)? Why, dish out its own desktop family, of course! At least that’s what AMD is reckoning judging by the abrupt introduction of the Business Class desktop. Obviously the firm’s very first computer brand, the series is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, but it’s noted that even the “biggest corporate clients” can find something to love. The company is planning to move the units via Acer, HP, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens and Lenovo, and they’ll be available with Athlon X2 dual-core, Phenom X3 triple-core and Phenom X4 quad-core CPUs. Oh, and if you’re own outfit is totally over these “desktops,” AMD is looking to unveil Business Class laptops during the second half of 2008.

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Lenovo’s the latest laptop vendor to go to a mostly-widescreen lineup today, as it retires the 4:3 14.1-inch ThinkPad T61. All that’s left in the standard ratio are the 12.1-inch X-series laptops, and even those are something of a novelty in today’s 13.3-inch dominated market. It’s not a formal move and there’s no announcement, but it’s clearly a growing trend — Apple, Sony, and HP don’t offer any 4:3 laptops either — and it’s got us wondering what people prefer. Just amongst Engadget editors there’s no clear agreement: some of us prize vertical real estate, while others say tiling windows horizontally provides maximum multitasking power, and one ed rocks both 16:9 and 4:3 displays side-by-side — but that’s probably crazy. What’s your aspect ratio of choice? Hit us up in comments!

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