Laptops have surely come a long way. There are lappies available that are ideal for gamers, for budget conscious individuals, for corporate people, and now, even for graphics artists and designers.

The Lenovo ThinkPad W700 is more than your average 17-inch notebook. Aside from the professional grade WUXGA display with 400 nit brightness and auto-color calibration sensor, it’s the first laptop to integrate a Wacom digitizer into its design the perfect mobile computer for photographers, graphic artists, and others in a similar field. Rounding up its specs is an Intel 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme Quad Core processor, up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1GB Nvidia Quadro FX 370M vidcard, dual HDD bays configurable in RAID 0 or RAID 1, 7-in-1 card reader, 5 USB ports, and thanks to its size, a full numeric keypad. If you need to hook this bad boy to an external display, you can do so through the dual-link DVI, VGA and display port.

It’s slated to be released in September with a starting price of a whopping $2,978 for the most basic model. It’s expensive, but then again, this isn’t your regular run-of-the-mill laptop either.