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."

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Please god make sure its

[LiquidCoooled]

Not using Sony batteries.
Hundreds of hours of smoking hot performance.

Abuse

[Daemonstar]

Great, now when you go to a website, it will infect the laptop so that it shows ads or porn on the screen. :P

Better Eat Your Wheaties!

[garcia]

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.

Showing what now?

[Monokeros]

The second display is capable of showing MP3s? That's handy.
I like watching audio; cuts down on noise pollution.

Re:Technically dual screen.

[truthsearch]

Yeah, then two people could play a game of Battleship with only one laptop!

We need dual screens on the inside.

[VidEdit]

The second, cell-phone-style screen on the outside is cute, but what would be really useful would be one or two additional laptop screens that would swing out like a two fold restaurant menu. While a triptych screen laptop might be a little heavier and need strong hinges, it would be great for video editing and such...

Pimp my Laptop

[iSwitched]

Yo dog, we took your boring laptop and added a 7" monitor!