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Contents of the article aside, I’m intrigued by that Thinkpad with what appears to be a graphics tablet in the palm rest. Anyone know what model that is?

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Two pairs of physical "mouse" buttons - one for the touchpad and second for trackpoint (red "dot") - look quite unusual.

Especially in comparison to the new Z13 model[1] in which Lenovo has ditched buttons-buttons on top of the touchpad in favor of an area of touchpad acting as buttons for both trackpoint and touchpad. My T-series has physical buttons-buttons for the trackpoint on top of the touchpad and bottom area of the touchpad acting as buttons for the touchpad. I haven't tested neither Z13 model (not yet released) nor the old W-series but I think Z-series may be a downgrade.

Seriously, the trackpoint/touchbar from MacBooks is the only thing I miss after switching to ThinkPads.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34954787

Lenovo keeps trying to kill the trackpoint. With the T440 they also killed the trackpoint physical buttons but people HATED it so they brought them back for future T series devices. The Z line is their attempt to do it again. I hope it stays contained there.

Looks like a W701 or W701ds. The W701ds had the graphics tablet and pull out screen. Very rare, I wish I had one just for the novelty!

The W700/W701 had an embedded Wacom tablet option

It’s labeled W701. Probably from quite a few years ago.

From about 16 years ago, it also has a slide-out second monitor on the side that was an interesting idea, but effectively useless.

Here's an image of one with the monitor slid-out:

http://www.tabletsnlaptops.com/laptop-images/lenovo-thinkPad...

Out of curiosity, what makes the second monitor "effectively useless"?

It looks tiny. I would guess that it’s just not enough usable screen real estate.

Thats only the DS variant of the W700/W701, some of them are just normal workstations, too.

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