Meet the Laptop of 2015

cweditor writes "Like concept cars at auto shows, the computer industry designs 'concept notebooks' to imagine the machines of the future. The 'concepts' may not come to market as-is, but it's likely some of their ideas, components and features will. Take a look at systems you might be using in 7 years. In one, a touch-sensitive screen acts as the system's keyboard and mouse, allowing you to slide your finger across the screen to immediately shut off the display and keep what you're working on confidential. Their associated image gallery includes a prototype for a dual-screen laptop."

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That's nothing new

[Minwee]

I have a "concept model" of a dual screen laptop. It fits in my hand and can play Mario Bros.

Re:That's nothing new

[2nd Post!]

You mean until it is successful, right?

With vibration, haptic advances, visual, and audio feedback, what is wrong with a second touch sensitive screen as the keyboard?

Then when you don't need it as a keyboard, it can become a tool-kit, palette, and any other interface you need.

Re:That's nothing new

[Allador]

Using a touch-screen as a keyboard is a terrible idea, and only good for very casual users.

For the typical road-warrior that totes a laptop around, you need a keyboard that you can type on without having to look at it.

Touch screens work adequately for systems like the iPhone where you need to be looking at the display anyway, but are useless on a laptop where you need to be able to type quickly and move on and off the keyboard without having to look at it all the time.

Wrong.

[youthoftoday]

Given those concept graphics none of those will be my laptop of the future. I won't be using anything with a 'start' button.

Re:In the future nobody touches anything

[Brian Gordon]

My fingers land right on the middle of the keys; there's no fumbling around the edges until I get good purchase on the middle and finally press it. I'd have no problem with no tactile feedback, though it would be really hard to type without looking at the screen.
Also come on, really? We have an article on the front page about how stupid futurism is and then a futurist article. Trying to appeal to everyone I see. Anyway it's not like all of that has interest to anybody except the PC World grandpa crowd; I'm far more interested in seeing those number of cores go up up up and being able to run xbox 360 games (oh haha I remember that old thing; sent it in 15 times for repairs before microsoft's games division closed) on my entry-level cell phone.

Worst ideas ever

[Sciros]

Seriously, the people who came up with this stuff are completely unimaginative and idiotic. Tactile feedback for typing is almost a necessity given you *don't f-ing look at the keyboard while typing*!! The only "future laptop" with some actual touch feedback they showed was the oily blob, which I don't even know how to approach. If I want to replace my laptop with an oily blob, I'll gain 200 pounds and sit on the table myself.

The one that turns into a book viewer if you turn it 90 degrees is a total joke. Seriously, take your laptop right now, turn it 90 degrees so that the break between the two "halves" is vertical, and tell me that's a comfortable way to handle reading material. Unless it's laying flat on the table (in which case it better be quite small) it's completely unmanageable.

The one they showed slung over the steering wheel of a car, that's just bad. BAD BAD BAD! Hey guys, here's a piece of crap with a touch-screen keyboard you have to stare at in order to use that you can hang right on your steering wheel! And then what, drive and type? That looks like the most uncomfortable thing ever even if you're parked.

I give all these "laptops of the future" an EPIC FAIL out of 10.

Re:In the future nobody touches anything

[Sciros]

Type a lengthy text message without looking at the phone's keyboard. Quickly. ^_^ I mean, there's a reason there's a bump on the 'F' and 'J' keys on the keyboard I'm using at the moment. A good reason.