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Dual-headed Laptops

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-different dept.

Baloo Ursidae writes "ABC News is reporting that some little upstart in PA is making dual headed laptops. Orient it like a book, you have two portrait-oriented touch sensitive monitors. Orient it like a laptop, and one of the monitors becomes a soft keyboard. Not cheap, however, they start at $4,000." That is absolutely nuts. More power to 'em!

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  1. Tablet PC Alternative? by path_man · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, despite the negative comments at the head of the Slashdot article, I think that this is actually a good thing. Let more tablet PC alternatives enter the market so we can really test the usability factor of !!!OMG!!! different ways in which we use computers.

    I don't think there are many ./'ers who don't agree that market forces are how we weed out what is really good and what really stinks. If the company manufacturing these happens to stumble onto a new idea that changes the way in which we compute, they'll succeed fiscally, and hopefully shift (for the better) the way we use laptops and mobile computers. If, on the other hand, this turns out to be another lead-balloon idea based on the notion that "a fool and his money are soon parted" that will play out as well.

    I, for one, am excited to see different form factors for mobile platforms. I admit I'm a compute gadget fan, but that's the only way we can improve the status quo.

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    1. Re:Tablet PC Alternative? by Blondie-Wan · · Score: 4, Insightful
      I agree with most of your post, except (ironically) for the part where you specifically say what you think /.'ers might agree with:

      I don't think there are many ./'ers who don't agree that market forces are how we weed out what is really good and what really stinks.

      I think most /.'ers would agree market forces haven't been much good at weeding out what stinks from what what's good when it comes to OSes, actually, among other things (or is Windows really soooo much "better" than Linux, Mac OS, Be, etc.?).

  2. Dirty screen? by Lally+Singh · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of the two screens are going to get very dirty after being used as a keyboard for a while.

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    1. Re:Dirty screen? by RLiegh · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If you smoke, or live in some place dusty (such as arizona) and use your laptop for any extended period of time, that's a problem already.

      I don't think this would make that much of a difference?

      Or were you going for +1 funny?