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Twin-Screen Vista Laptops
An anonymous reader writes ""Asus has shown off a prototype of the first
dual-screen laptop, the W5Fe. These laptops, bearing the Intel codename 'Newport' have a standard screen on the inside plus a smaller, additional colour display on the outside of the lid. The second display is capable of showing video, flight departure information, movie show times, alerts, games, movies, images and MP3s, all while the laptop is switched off. According to CNET, the battery requirement for such a screen is minimal — with standard laptop batteries providing hundreds of hours of use."
Not using Sony batteries.
Hundreds of hours of smoking hot performance.
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Great, now when you go to a website, it will infect the laptop so that it shows ads or porn on the screen. :P
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The second display is capable of showing MP3s? That's handy.
I like watching audio; cuts down on noise pollution.
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Yeah, then two people could play a game of Battleship with only one laptop!
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"We can't wait for this to hit the streets (probably some time after Vista's release) -- not necessarily because we want to use any of the functions, we're just complete posers. Imagine the looks you'd get on the train! -RR"
Comments like: "That's the biggest damn PDA I've ever seen." or "Shit, guy, you should buy a video Ipod."
Yo dog, we took your boring laptop and added a 7" monitor!
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Now my boss will expect twice the amount of work from me.
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If that Portal Player chip is part of the laptop, isn't it false advertising to say "it runs even when powered off"? If it's off, then all of the laptop is off.
Can't wait to hear about people boarding airplaines with these laptops...
Business suit: "But miss, my laptop IS turned off!"
Hostess: "Then why is that external screen still working?"
Business suit: "Beats me!"
Hostess: "Security! We have a suicide bomber with a laptop countdown bomb!"
Or something...
That laptop was designed by Professor-X for those of us X-Men who can see sound.
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I've heard it comes complete with a suite called Sideshow Bob.
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Au contraire, I consider myself to be accomplishing two tasks when I read Slashdot on the main screen and subject everyone else to goatse on the mini screen.
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But that's my point. If there's a second motherboard (no matter the size) and a 2nd battery for it, it's still part of "the laptop". If the laptop is off, it means all its components should be off.
Oh sorry I didn't know you're after a bitchfest, I would've brought my heavy dictionary so we can be pedantic together on what "turned off laptop" means.
"Because, y'know, usually they put the screen on the *inside* part of the laptop to actually *protect* it."
That's funny. I thought the screen faced that way so you could, you know, see it while using the laptop.