Why?
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.
Bring back the unfolding keyboard (and the gummy trackpoint). 😂
Lenovo is really good at turning the coolest technology into absolutely useless laptops.
Can they make laptops with hinges that don’t break?
They can, my x230’s hinges are still good
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
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
Eventually we’ll get digital newspapers. This is one of the steps to that.
It’s a pretty awkward growth so far though.
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?
There’s a video in the article showing it working
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.
