Twin-Screen Vista Laptops

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 4, 2006 @03:55AM 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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Better Eat Your Wheaties! by garcia · 2006-10-04 03:59 · 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.