I have a better idea: a laptop screen that is legible on a sunny day
Why?
Bigger screen without bigger form factor?
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 trackpoint you bastards !
And the three buttons!
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?
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.
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.
