https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGhvYLbBRE
I think it seems like a cool idea, 17" at 4:3 ratio is alot of screen real estate, at a 12.5" 16:9 footprint.
Lot of negativity in this comment section, personally not something I'm that interested in, but I am interested in people experimenting with the form factor.
Nice 4:3 ratio. This essentially doubles as a full screen you can put anywhere with a keyboard always at hand. That's how I use my laptop 99.9% of the time.
The microsoft book is already better than a regular clamshell in my eyes for versatility, but If you ignore the price for a moment (which brings the book to ridicolous costs), IMHO this design beats a clamshell design in versatility a 1000 times over, and the detachable screen design as well.
I like it so much that I spent time to make it work great under Windows 11: check https://csdvrx.github.io/
Edit: Great read - and your your enthusiasm for the device is getting me interested in it, but what an incredible software shit show. Imagine spending millions on hardware R&D only to release a product that's unusable due to terrible software. Why do manufacturers keep doing this?
Just get one - it's hard to live without it now!!
> but what an incredible software shit show.
Microsoft didn't deliver the OS they were supposed to (bad) but Windows 11 is everything and more (good)
Intel... well, it's Intel. If you go into plane mode before suspend and play with the device manager to restart the device when the driver crashes or use one of my approaches or scripts, it works great!
Dang that's an info heavy page that you wrote haha.
In any case, the design is essentially the same, and I care about the form factor. Anything else I can find a way to make it work (or make a way)
I don't have that many on my 27" desktop monitors and it's totally fine.
I meant that 4:3 17" is substantially more than a 16:9 17" monitor.
4:3 vs 16:9 for the same diagonal (17") results in 12% more area. a 16" MBP is already large, and is only 16:10, so 17" 4:3 is comparable to like 18/19" of work space in 16:9/10 world.