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Twin-Screen Vista Laptops

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the even-i-think-that-is-kinda-stupid dept.

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."

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  1. Better Eat Your Wheaties! by garcia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And the best part: it can run for "hundreds of hours without draining your notebook battery," according to the PortalPlayer site.

    I'd like to see some real world numbers for this. Watching video and using wifi (to access the flight schedule information) would certainly drain the battery a bit faster than "100s of hours" before delving into your notebook battery.

    Mmmm, marketingspeak.

  2. Dual-screen? by ThinkWeak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I talk about dual-screens, I typically refer to the ability to utilize two screens at the same time to accomplish tasks. Having a screen on top of my laptop would just one more thing to replace when someone slams their overpacked suitcase up against my laptop case in the overhead.

    Now show me a laptop that folds open to have two 19" screens side-by-side and you have yourself a deal.

  3. Re:All this while switched off? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why a few hours? You can get around 8 hours of time out of a Nintendo DS with it's dual screens while playing games. I would imagine that a laptop battery is considerably more powerful than the DS battery.