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Bring back the trackpoint you bastards !
And the three buttons!
They didn’t take the TrackPoint away, did they?!
Edit: They really did… Way to kill a brand guys. I blame every goddamn tech journalist who wanted it gone, fuck you so much.
Why?
Bigger screen without bigger form factor?
i get this is a first gen but wow that looks awful. so many wrinkles. not mature enough to be revealed yet imo.
Short rolling demo from the article https://youtube.com/watch?v=ibpaLkvBXQY
Oh wow, the wrinkles would drive me nuts.
Also, why extend it vertically?
Lmao they really put a coffee cup alongside it, as if unrolling your laptop display like this at a Starbucks would be perfectly normal
Eventually we’ll get digital newspapers. This is one of the steps to that.
It’s a pretty awkward growth so far though.
I mean, that demo model looks like a hot mess of ripples and artefacts from this angle.
What the fuck do you even do on a tall scree… Oh its basically a portable vertical monitor
How does that work on the software side? I guess you can only slide it out fully, will that part be black while it comes up and then your display automatically changes resolution?
Adaptive screen resolution? Maybe like how phones can auto rotate the image? But less annoying hopefully. Sounds like a future feature if this type of thing takes off.
Edit: Whatching the demo in the article, it looks like they’re adding a screen when it’s extended. Like having another monitor.
There’s a video in the article showing it working
Can they make laptops with hinges that don’t break?
I’ve had two Thinkpads ~15 years and neither had hinges break. The first died due to water damage (the water protection can only do so much), and the second has been with me for almost 7 years now. Both were carried around in backpacks, dropped a few times (current one has a chip from falling off the counter onto a hard floor too many times), and the current one has been abused by young children (slamming the lid, standing on it, etc).
If you’re buying a Lenovo laptop that’s not a Thinkpad, I don’t know what to tell you, that’s on you.
To be fair, Lenovo also made the ThinkPad. You could throw those down a flight of stairs and they wouldn’t break
Source: I once dropped a thinkpad down a flight of stairs.
Meh I reckon 75% of that was IBM. I also had an ideapad that would survive literally nothing
They can, my x230’s hinges are still good
Lenovo is really good at turning the coolest technology into absolutely useless laptops.
Bring back the unfolding keyboard (and the gummy trackpoint). 😂
I have a better idea: a laptop screen that is legible on a sunny day
so eink pretty much though the refresh rate is shit
It could have been so simple: the display on a roll with a spring and a sensor to keep track and rescale the resolution accordingly. You pull at the top to extend the display to x2 and more and be done. Maybe add a scissor at the back to keep the foil without wrinkles. It would have been old-Lenovo-style sturdy instead of the plaything with a motor that breaks after 2 years.
