This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I want a laptop with a trackpoint, keyboard with good (like Model M) key travel and resistance (and water resilience too), color e-ink display (preferably 5:4 or 4:3 screen ratio) with good refresh rate, everything removable, 5G modem, GPIO, additional SSD slot, good set and amount of interfaces (not an Apple fan), and - important - chassis and hinges not made of shit.
Just in case somebody from Lenovo is lurking here.
Why?
Bigger screen without bigger form factor?
Why not?
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.
Pass
Bring back the trackpoint you bastards !
They didn't take the TrackPoint away, did they?!
Edit: They really did... Way to kill a brand guys. I blame every goddamn tech journalist who wanted it gone, fuck you so much.
I blame every goddamn tech journalist who wanted it gone
Weird if heir PMs and such really believed people who are clearly companies' PR and not representation of anything real, instead of focus groups.
It's the thinkpad x9 for anyone that wondered the model.
Can you make it more ugly and prone to mechanical failure for no gain.
slaps screen
you can fit so much “AI” in this bad boy
More like:
Slaps Screen:
Screen flashes in colors only a Mantis Shrimp can see before folding in half and going black...
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 fuck would you even do with a taller screen?
Just treat like side by side screens, so browser and code.
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.
Just a huge portrait screen to to doom scroll through Facebook reels and instagram stories probably
Taller porn..
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.
Oh there'll be gain. But not for the user.
Bring back the unfolding keyboard (and the gummy trackpoint). 😂
Can they make laptops with hinges that don't break?
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.
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
They can, my x230's hinges are still good
Lenovo is really good at turning the coolest technology into absolutely useless laptops.
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.
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. 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.
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
imagine making a laptop case for that
Like a phone case that fits onto it or just a carry bag?
Imagine pulling up to the ~~car meet~~ LAN party with this
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.
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.
