Weird Laptops are Coming – CES 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3LlyLx-2b8

by xbmcuser • 4 years ago

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hestefisk2• 4 years ago

The e-ink display on the laptop is quite cool. I could use that for writing simple notes and likely save a ton of battery.

esperent2• 4 years ago

I wonder how the latency is? I've been resisting buying an eink notebook because I think the best latency you can get now is around 30ms, which combined with the distance between pen tip and screen will give quite a visible delay.

I guess it's personal how annoying that would be, but for myself I'm waiting for sub 16ms delay.

defrost2• 4 years ago

12 Hz refresh rate on the eInk display. ( So ~ 80ms or so refresh )

COLOUR eInk BTW - not just black and white | shades of grey!

esperent2• 4 years ago

In case you don't want to watch the video, here's the "weird" laptops:

1. Laptop with rotatable display, eink one side, oled the other. This one actually qualifies as "weird" I guess.

2. Laptop with a foldable display

3. Laptop with two displays instead of a keyboard. Looks pretty good actually, I would consider it as a mobile workstation if the specs are good enough.

And some other totally normal laptops.

derac• 4 years ago

I'll bet the battery life is terrible with two screens, it would be amazing for working from a plug or big external battery though. The eink one seems very practical to me.

phil2942• 4 years ago

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23541379/lenovo-thinkbook-... says: "Just don’t expect Kindle battery life out of a laptop like this since you’ve got the overhead of running Windows on its 13th Gen Intel processor (and up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of PCIe Gen 4 storage) rather than a simple e-reader chip. Lenovo’s estimating up to 21 hours of battery life from its 56Wh battery using the E Ink screen, and it isn’t providing context about what kind of content can run for 21 hours at a time."

phil2942• 4 years ago

Can we not just finally have a normal, boring, standard eink laptop? I've been waiting years for this, but all we got are broken promises, over-engineered weirdnesses like this one and dozens of tablets. I might buy this rotatable one just for that purpose, even though I don't care for the OLED side...

wyre2• 4 years ago

An e-ink laptop would not be consumer friendly due to einks low refresh rate unless it was running a significant amount of custom software and the demand wouldn’t be there for a business to make it worth it.

I also love eink. Maybe if there was a FOSS OS built around eink?

akvadrako• 4 years ago

Maybe the video didn't mention it but there is also a new laptop with a 3D display that doesn't require glasses.

jrumbut• 4 years ago

It took more than a minute tell me that there's a laptop with both an OLED display and an e-ink display.

Is there a writeup of these laptops somewhere? I just don't have the patience for video.

nullc• 4 years ago

I just want an updated x60. No stupid trackpad wasting space.

mmusc• 4 years ago

That 2 screen yoga looks interesting. You get a lot of desktop space and lots of configuration options.

Krisjohn• 4 years ago

Dropping the wireless keyboard onto the "bottom" and having the remaining accessible screen turn into a touchpad was pretty cool.

Weird Laptops are Coming – CES 2023

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