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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. A whole new way to compromise Windows! by Toe,+The · · Score: 0, Troll

    Cool! Someone has come up with a whole new set of potential security holes in the classically unsecure Windows environment. This ought to be interesting...

  2. Lame by qaffle · · Score: 1, Troll

    Lamest idea ever. I like tech things, I don't mind MS, but this is the lamest idea ever. Anything you want on that screen could be written on a little piece of paper. Plus who carries their laptop around out of a case, uncovered. If you cover the laptop you can't see the screen anyway, and the times when this would be covered are probably the exact times that you would potentially use this thing.

    Lame

  3. Opening the lid by Megane · · Score: 0, Troll

    From TFA:

    why not just open the lid?

    Because that kind of suspend and resume isn't reliable (or otherwise sucks) with Windows?

    (Full Disclosure: this message was typed on a MacBook Pro 17")

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