Lenovo is really good at turning the coolest technology into absolutely useless laptops.
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Bring back the unfolding keyboard (and the gummy trackpoint). ๐
Short rolling demo from the article https://youtube.com/watch?v=ibpaLkvBXQY
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How does that work on the software side? I guess you can only slide it out fully, will that part be black while it comes up and then your display automatically changes resolution?
Adaptive screen resolution? Maybe like how phones can auto rotate the image? But less annoying hopefully. Sounds like a future feature if this type of thing takes off.
Edit: Whatching the demo in the article, it looks like they're adding a screen when it's extended. Like having another monitor.
There's a video in the article showing it working
People hating on this but as someone who codes on the road I'd legit buy it if not the price tag. The vertical space is incredible!
Same. I love vertical real estate
Same. A lot of people in here are definitely not the target market. Taller screens are always better for coding. I also think for just general multitasking too. You can have secondary windows up top of on the bottom but you can make the main thing your working on biggest than what it would be on a standard 16:9/10 monitor which is great.
imagine making a laptop case for that
It's just a 14" laptop.
I have a 15.6" laptop, but I had to reinstall the foreskin, so I'm down to 14" now.. โน๏ธ
Like a phone case that fits onto it or just a carry bag?
Imagine pulling up to the ~~car meet~~ LAN party with this
It could have been so simple: the display on a roll with a spring and a sensor to keep track and rescale the resolution accordingly. You pull at the top to extend the display to x2 and more and be done. Maybe add a scissor at the back to keep the foil without wrinkles. It would have been old-Lenovo-style sturdy instead of the plaything with a motor that breaks after 2 years.
i get this is a first gen but wow that looks awful. so many wrinkles. not mature enough to be revealed yet imo.
This is actually not the first year it's been demoed. Last year it was just a proof of concept. It will take time to work the bugs out.
I mean they are actually selling it now, there shouldn't be bugs like that making it to consumers.
Zenbook Duo is much simpler and actually seems effective.
Eventually we'll get digital newspapers. This is one of the steps to that.
It's a pretty awkward growth so far though.