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

Re:This can't happen soon enough.

[fisted]

So you both do and do not want a bezel-less tablet?

Re:Closer and closer to bricks of epoxy

[Junta]

I second this. Have an X1 tablet, normal screwdriver to open up, no heatgun to melt glue, no jewelers tool to pry open impossible plastic latches.. Of course most parts are soldered to board, but the disk is a removable m.2 and the battery could be replaced. Anything else goes on that... Well at least I can salvage the M.2.

T480s has that and also two more serviceable pci slots (one for wlan, and one that can be wwan or a short m.2 drive) and a serviceable memory slot, and they are not particulary big either.

I have never seen a *phone* be that serviceable though.