Like Smartphone Vendors, Laptop OEMs Are Increasingly Moving To Near Bezel-Less Displays (theverge.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: In the past few years, IFA has become a laptop show. It may not be the place where companies like Apple or Microsoft show off their flashiest hardware, but when it comes to the midrange, workhorse laptops that dominate the shelves at Best Buy and desks at schools, IFA is where you'll find them. That's why it's so interesting that there's been what feels like an overnight revolution in laptop screens at this year's show: bezels are dead, and IFA killed them. [...] Now, that wave is coming to laptops: Acer's Swift 7 and Swift 5, Asus' new ZenBook line, Lenovo's updated Yoga laptops, and even Dell's midrange Inspiron computers are all getting their screen borders whittled down. These new laptops are pushing the screen-to-body ratio higher than ever: the Swift 5 is 87.6 percent screen, while the newly teased Swift 7 checks in at 92 percent. And Asus' ZenBooks feature a new ErgoLift hinge design, which is (in theory) to improve typing, but it also cleverly hides the lower bezel so that Asus can claim it's up to 95 percent screen.

Comments

This can't happen soon enough.

[dgatwood]

It drives me absolutely nuts that Apple is reportedly implementing bezel-less displays on every device BUT the one they should have done it on FIRST.

• I don't want a bezel-less cell phone, because that makes it hard to hold without covering part of the screen and accidentally triggering things.
• I don't want a bezel-less tablet, because that makes it hard to hold without covering part of the screen and accidentally triggering things.
• I DO want a bezel-less tablet, because I hold it by the keyboard part, so a bezel-less design could improve the screen size without reducing usability even slightly.

news that matters?

[iggymanz]

*yawn* this is the kind of crap I'd expect to see on typical consumer electronics fanboy site

for something the size of a laptop screen there comes the point where the exact thinness of the bezel really doesn't matter; we've past that point in a prior year

such a shame...

[Anonymous Coward]

What a nice new laptop and now even more fragile device you got there.

Such a shame if it were to get so easily damaged and you didn't purchase our extended expensive warranty from one of our inconvenient authorized repair shops.

So frustrating would that be, so frustrating would that be.

Increases screen size to fit in your bag

[tepples]

A smaller bezel means the laptop is physically less bulky for a given screen size. This means you can carry a 11.6" laptop as easily as an older 10.1" laptop, or carry a 13" laptop as easily as an older 11.6" laptop. (Granted, it also means less space for rechargeable batteries.) Conversely, it increases the screen size of a laptop that fits in a given bag.

Re:Not really surprised

[Z00L00K]

Until you crack the display from a simple bump.

Closer and closer to bricks of epoxy

[Rick Schumann]

We seem to be moving inexorably towards devices that are just solid bricks that you toss in the trash when they stop working, and away from things that are serviceable. If we had Federation-style replicators that can recycle them as energy and make you a new one, great, but we don't, it's wasteful, and it's stupid.

Re:Why?

[QuietLagoon]

... Think about it. "damn I wish this screen was smaller" ...

I have thought about it. For me a slightly larger bag is far less expensive than the purchase of a new shiny object. The "I don't want a larger bag" seems to me more like you're trying to find a justification, any justification, to buy a new shiny object. :) But that's just me.

2mm thinner phone, in my inch-thick OtterBox

[raymorris]

I just HAVE to buy a new $800 phone so it'll get rid of the 2mm bezel. Can't have 2mm around the screen before I put it in the big ass OtterBox case.