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Flip-Pad Voyager: Dual-screen Laptop

Posted by michael on from the double-the-pleasure dept.

deitrahs writes "I came across this, and wept with joy. It's an Athlon-based, dual-head laptop. Yes, that's right - dual-head LAPTOP. Dual 13.3" displays. And it folds up like an old-school Transformer. Now I just need to find a buyer for this spare kidney so I can afford it - $5 thousand - but the expressions on people's faces at LAN parties will be OH so worth it."

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  1. Dual Head gaming? by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "...but the expressions on people's faces at LAN parties will be OH so worth it."

    I have a dual monitor setup at home, and I play Quake a lot with it, but I haven't been able to make much use of the second screen in that game. (I do like being able to see what time it is, though.. heh.)

    Does anybody know of any 'dual-head' mods for either Quake or any other FPS game that uses the second screen for anything? I'd *LOVE* if the left screen was the front view and the right screen was the rear view!! Or maybe stats? I dunno...

    Just curious if anybody using dual-head has done anything interesting with it in relation to lan-party style games.

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    1. Re:Dual Head gaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Doom actually had this feature. You could actually set up three monitors (one for the left, front, and right view) to simulate a sort of VR environment. Some of the Doom ports nowadays have kept this feature, though I don't recall seeing anyone use it.

  2. Re:This shouldn't really count as dual head by PurpleFloyd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But the Geforce4 MX/Go is basically a GF2 pumped up to higher clock and RAM speeds. It doesn't even implement a full DX8 feature set. The GF4 Titanium models are the ones with a new chipset. That said, the Nvidia mobile line finally is bringing decent graphics to the mobile market. If you can get past the blurriness of an LCD (which isn't that bad), you can finally play games on your laptop. Still, don't fool yourself into thinking it's better than your desktop system. Certain sacrifices must be made to keep power consumption and heat output to a minimum; these are not conducive to a super-high-performance GPU.

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