As The Joker says in The Dark Knight, let me show you a magic trick.

What you see above is a Lenovo wd700ds laptop that ships with an Intel quad-core 2.53GHz CPU, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA Quadro graphics card, Wacom Tablet, and some other tasty bits.

The screen's nice enough, running at a tasty 1,920x1,200 resolution, and the specifications make it generally suitable for heavy-computational workstation tasks.

The back-busting 5kg laptop is a bit porky and looking at how thick the screen section is gives an indication as to why.

Simply push the right-hand side in and out emerges another screen, that's right, a second panel.

The secondary screen can be rotated by 45-degrees, to the front, and the 10.6in panel provides a native resolution of 1,280x768, making it horizontally large enough to match up to the main screen on the left.

Lenovo retails a model without the dual screens, and the rationale on this model lies with how multi-monitor setups can aid efficiency. We were shown a demonstration of pulling various apps across the two screens, but such is the size of the second, that it's not much more useful than having a Sidebar or messaging app open.

If the weight will give you an ache in your back, the price, at around $5,000 for admittedly a decent spec, will amplify the wince.

Powerful and unique, the Lenovo w700ds does may be of interest to workstation users who demand more screen real-estate in mobile form.


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