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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.
Lenovo is really good at turning the coolest technology into absolutely useless laptops.
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Looking forward to the HTC Torah
Maybe get that patent sorted out quickly?
I would but I don’t even know where to start. I don’t know how to use CAD software and I can’t draw for shit. Even if I could, what next? I have no networking skills.
Imagine pulling up to the
car meetLAN party with thisIt 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.
Pass
They’re completely out of ideas.
I’d be happy with a gaming laptop that doesn’t have hinges that break.
Lenovo might turn your hinge into a screen but giving you a hinge that works is to complicated.
Why?
Bigger screen without bigger form factor?
Why not?
Zenbook Duo is much simpler and actually seems effective.
imagine making a laptop case for that
Like a phone case that fits onto it or just a carry bag?
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… ☹️
Can they make laptops with hinges that don’t break?
They can, my x230’s hinges are still good
To be fair, Lenovo also made the ThinkPad. You could throw those down a flight of stairs and they wouldn’t break
Source: I once dropped a thinkpad down a flight of stairs.
Meh I reckon 75% of that was IBM. I also had an ideapad that would survive literally nothing
Thank you for reminding me of Thinkpads. I’d like to track down a used or refurbished one for home use to survive kiddos
I’ve had two Thinkpads ~15 years and neither had hinges break. The first died due to water damage (the water protection can only do so much), and the second has been with me for almost 7 years now. Both were carried around in backpacks, dropped a few times (current one has a chip from falling off the counter onto a hard floor too many times), and the current one has been abused by young children (slamming the lid, standing on it, etc).
If you’re buying a Lenovo laptop that’s not a Thinkpad, I don’t know what to tell you, that’s on you.
T-series?
First was T-series, second is E-series because the T-series had eliminated expendability and moved to soldered RAM.
I also got a Yoga, which was a pile of trash. The hinge broke after a couple years, and the CPU was bad when I bought it (only got it because I needed one when I was away from home). I don’t know how the other models are, but that experience gives me some sits in serious concerns, especially given how heavily advertised it was.
I have no idea if the current E-series or T-series are worth getting, but the ones I got were pretty good (T440 and E495).
What the fuck do you even do on a tall scree… Oh its basically a portable vertical monitor
How expensive is it anyway isn’t it just better to get a second monitor if you have to?
I use dual monitors one on top of each other. If I had this I would simply stack 2 windows.
Can you make it more ugly and prone to mechanical failure for no gain.
The fuck would you even do with a taller screen?
Two or more windows on top of each other. Have you never even put a monitor on its side to get more vertical space?
As a Dev that needs some communication with a team, documentation and potentially a video for entertainment whilst working. Monitors that are taller are great. The LG dual up is my holy grail right now.
If you are a developer, writing code, the taller screen helps.
My three monitor set up is two landscape monitors on the sides of one glorious portrait monitor for my code.
Just treat like side by side screens, so browser and code.
Taller porn…
Just a huge portrait screen to to doom scroll through Facebook reels and instagram stories probably
slaps screen
you can fit so much “AI” in this bad boy
A lot of current laptop designs are leaving free space around the battery so more AI can be poured in at a later date, through a dedicated nipple presumably.
More like:
Slaps Screen:
Screen flashes in colors only a Mantis Shrimp can see before folding in half and going black…
I wouldn’t say no gain. I would love that real estate on my bedside stand I use with physical disability. I would not want the sub 17" form factor and keyboard though. I struggle to do anything super technical without a second screen which is a pain in the ass. I can’t sit at a desktop and the ergonomics of a laptop are unbeatable in my situation.
It looks like when it’s extended it adds a second screen. But it’s vertical, one on top of the other. I feel like doing it horizontally would be more natural to use. Baby steps, I guess.
I have a monitor on a custom made arm that sits above my laptop when I need a second screen.
It works well in a tight space like in a board meeting at a conference table or plane seat. Vertical doesn’t make a real difference in my experience. You just need two spaces that do not move so that you can quickly reference multiple documents and keep your place between them.
Good point. I was thinking of best use case, but really whatever works will do.
Yeah I can, add a hinge and swivel so it can go widescreen too
And more expensive while you’re at it, thanks.
Best we can do is never actually release it.
Put your pre-order in now!
The no gain part I’ll argue against. Having two browser windows open and getting to see both would be really nice a ton of times. Or one browser and a document/pdf whatever.
Like having a Netflix show running up top while doing work on the bottom half. Or writing a paper while having reference material open and visible. Or simply just reading an article without having to scroll as often.
Usage wise, a tall screen would have tons of usage. I just wouldn’t pay an extra $2,000+ for the privilage of it. I’d definitely pay like an extra 20% or so to have it, though.
I have a lenovo external usb-c monitor.
I love it. Use it every day. It’s great.
I’d never buy this rolling screen gimmick.
I’d never want to carry around a 2nd monitor or find a place to set it when using a "lap"top. A 2nd monitor is great for a desktop.
That’s fine, you do you and all that.
The thing is, laptops haven’t been "lap"tops for many years. Many workplaces have infrastructure where you carry your laptop around and dock it into your desktop monitors & peripherals at your desk.
I personally really like to work at our public library. In my backpack I have the laptop, monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It’s a really great set up and I can be just as productive as I am in my home office.
No. Laptops are still laptops. You’re just choosing not to use them as such. In fact, they’re more lap friendly now than they originally were. With how you describe using yours, you should just have a mini pc instead of a laptop.
Sure. How silly of pretty much every office in the world to issue employees with laptops instead of mini PC’s.
Walk in to a library or Cafe anywhere in the world and you’ll see laptops, on desks and not on laps.
Yeah, and how many libraries you see with laptops on em and people with second monitors attached that people also carry? People put them on desks at libraries because libraries provide large desks. That doesn’t give you an extra amount of monitor.
I had thought when I posted that to put ‘no justifiable gain’ but did not for some reason, maybe it ruined the flow but with hindsight and as you and others have explained perhaps it should be there.
Probably. As you originally wrote it, it just looks like you think the screen is pointless.
I do think it is a bit gimmicky and the problem it seeks to address could be more practically solved in other more conventional ways, but it is an attempt and a first iteration and has merit for that and who knows where it will end up, maybe all our screens will expand and contract like the windows within them one day.
Solved in what other ways? Having a portable laptop you have to carry around with a 2nd monitor and find a place to set up is a pain if you actually do stuff on the go and aren’t just using your laptop to move from like a desk at home to a desk at your office.
Oh there’ll be gain. But not for the user.
Short rolling demo from the article https://youtube.com/watch?v=ibpaLkvBXQY
Oh wow, the wrinkles would drive me nuts.
Also, why extend it vertically?
Lmao they really put a coffee cup alongside it, as if unrolling your laptop display like this at a Starbucks would be perfectly normal
Bring back the unfolding keyboard (and the gummy trackpoint). 😂
