Project Valerie – The world's first triple display laptop
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At least it only does it once, unless you clear the browser cache.
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}Half the time, I'm still reading the damn article, I was just playing with the mouse. Now I have to find your hidden Close button to keep reading. Go to hell, marketers.
What has also been as old as the web is the first voted comment on any HN story being some totally irrelevant gripe.
But then I realized something - most of the time, when I use a laptop, I'm fairly space-sensitive. You can't use one of these on a train, tram, bus, plane, or in any situation where there are people next to you.
And even when there is enough room, you pretty much instantly give up any semblance of privacy. Even though 99.9% of the time what I have on my monitor isn't something that I'd mind a random person seeing, sometimes it is. My current laptop's an Ideapad Yoga, 13" screen, and if I close a window and a sensitive document, or picture, or what have you is on the screen it's not a big deal. My body easily hides the screen from anyone behind me, and since the laptop is so small it's usually kinda tricky to see stuff on the screen from the sides anyway. Besides, I'm one of several people in the (train car|bus|plane|area) that have a laptop open, so usually nobody's watching my screen anyway. If someone's got one of these things? I'm going to take a look at it, probably look at what they've got open and what they've got on the screens. So are the other 40 people around me.
When they say "mobile desktop", that's exactly what it is, to me. If you use the 3 screens anywhere you wouldn't use a desktop PC, things become awkward. The problem is that the vast majority of places where I use my laptop aren't places I'd use a desktop PC.
I think it would be awesome to have access to three screens when you're on the road, but this thing definitely won't be replacing any ultrabooks anytime soon.
IBM did a similar idea with a dual screen thinkpad, it was not very successful. My impression was that it just didn't make a lot of sense. Imagine a couple of USB-C connected displays on either side when you wanted them, no need to lug them around when you didn't. That would seem to be a bit more sensible to me.
But yeah, I'm with you that I'd like a mini display that's detachable instead. I think one exists, but horribly overpriced, ugly, and horrible resolution.
(The other two things that break for me are the power connection inside the laptop and the power cord where it bends just outside the laptop. I don't think I'm that rough on them...)
Oh you can. You just use the display that gets slided at the front position.
> And even when there is enough room, you pretty much instantly give up any semblance of privacy.
I have a 3M display view protector foil. Works quite well, except if the spectator is directly behind you.
Even the TV-Size ones are only 2.57mm thick.
(I badly want slideout screens, although at a 13 inch formfactor. My Dream would be something like the Surfacebook, with the option to slide out screens on both sides)
A Boomslang or whatever it was called back in the day, then two Diamondbacks within a year, in like 2007.
I've had friends say their Naga and Lachesis or whatever die within a year too, usually the buttons or entirely.
I've now used a Logitech G1 since 2007 or so, with extremely heavy gaming abuse, and no problems at all. I am considering buying several more off eBay just so I can use it forever in the case this one breaks.
¹: Okay, I had the wheel go out on my $20 "Logitech Wheel Mouse" from 1999 after 10+ years of heavy use, and a $10 Dell generic mouse at the office after 5 years of heavy use. Just the wheel though. Might have just been dust, really, and fixable for both. The Logitech was used to death in gaming for at least 5+ years.
These days, I just buy cheap wired mice, because I don't really trust the expensive ones.
Yea, that's why I like my G1. It's built to last abusive clicks and has only 800DPI, which is perfect for me.
Conversely, had a super nice Logitech MX crap out on me in a year or so.
No thanks.
Their Core dock, the Stealth ultrabook, and the Orochi mouse, are all currently sold and not one of these products is fully functional with itself/its counterparts, even if you get a "good" unit.
Their designs are often neat / interesting / innovative. But until they learn how to create and ship working functional products, it's all just pretty artwork.
I'm guessing 2 hours might be wishful thinking (which is actually OK for me, since I'm plugged in >90% of the time).
I guess that the dGPU is only used when all three screens are extended or an application that requires a dGPU is running. Similarly to MBPs which by default use the Intel GPU and only on demand switch to the dGPU.
[1] http://ark.intel.com/products/88967/Intel-Core-i7-6700HQ-Pro...
I guess the people who would want these laptops don't care too much about portability or battery life?
The segment of the population that requires a real GPU to get work done buys desktop replacement laptops and probably always will. Not everyone is a "digital nomad" or whatever. Sometimes you've just got to show a client a few tens of millions of polygons of art/CAD and you want to apply the finishing touches on the plane ride over cause you're way behind.
Though admittedly it's more likely to be a Dell Precision or a BOXX than this monstrosity I think there's more room in this market segment than you might think.
> I think there's more room in this market segment than you might think.
I have an external display that I bring along to try to bridge the gap in loss of productivity of working in annoying places, but it (asus mb168+) has garbage drivers (can't adjust brightness on OS X or windows 10; crashes OS X), which is why I'd even consider a native multi-screen device. I think there's more room in the "external displays that aren't terrible" market than the big/heavy performance desktop-replacement market.
But also yeah, looks like a hinge can easily snap off... and knowing Razer's wildly fluctuating quality in its products, this thing is "Hingegate" in the making. Calling it right now.
I can't really imagine trying to use this on my lap.
I went to check and 9 years ago laptops were bigger then notebooks.
Back in 2008 - What is a Laptop Computer? (n.) A laptop is a small, portable computer -- small enough that it can sit on your lap. Nowadays, laptop computers are more frequently called notebook computers, though technically laptops are somewhat larger in size than notebooks, in both thickness and weight. - http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/laptop...
Now if they only did it in the 12" and 15" as well....
The 40" will have double the surface area. And can be had for under $500!
You could just as easily say this laptop has the equivalent of a dozen 1080p screens, but at that pixel density, it's misleading too.