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What is that big black block to the let side? A powersupply? That thing is the size of an apple mini. While the functionality of the second screen is dubious, the design is cleary out of whack. It reminds me of the first Chevy Lumina minivan: vast amounts of weirdly proportioned unused space, cheap looking and shiny shiny.
What's the use of a tiny screen underneath your big screen? I don't get this. If it were on the cover of your laptop so that you could browse your contacts, I could understand that. If it was on the touchpad as a fun little "oh look my fingers make ripples like as if I was touching water" add-on, that would be okay. If it was a touchscreen with customizable shortcuts and such, that's cool too. But in it's current state, it just looks like added expense and wasted real-estate and no added functionality for the sake of saying "we have two screens!!!"
I guess it'll probably end up as a minor screen with system information and a digital clock display. This seems like a step backward in design and function in order to step forward in marketing and sillyness.
More companies need to look to the wisdom of Dr. Ian Malcolm when coming up with some of these cockamamie designs.
It seems to me that HP was so busy figuring out if they could put a secondary 800x480 screen of only limited use in that they never stop to think if they should.
The lack of humility before a crowded laptop market that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me.
I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that HP and VooDoo are using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it.
They read what other modders like Ben Heck and Art Lebedev had done and you took the next step. HP and VooDoo didn't earn the knowledge for themselves, so they don't take any responsibility... for it.
They stood on the shoulders of modders to accomplish something as fast as they could and before they even knew what they had, they patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic hulking behemoth of a "laptop", and now -
01/22/09
Porn.
Ever.
01/22/09
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01/02/09
What's the use of a tiny screen underneath your big screen? I don't get this. If it were on the cover of your laptop so that you could browse your contacts, I could understand that. If it was on the touchpad as a fun little "oh look my fingers make ripples like as if I was touching water" add-on, that would be okay. If it was a touchscreen with customizable shortcuts and such, that's cool too. But in it's current state, it just looks like added expense and wasted real-estate and no added functionality for the sake of saying "we have two screens!!!"
I guess it'll probably end up as a minor screen with system information and a digital clock display. This seems like a step backward in design and function in order to step forward in marketing and sillyness.
01/02/09
It seems to me that HP was so busy figuring out if they could put a secondary 800x480 screen of only limited use in that they never stop to think if they should.
01/02/09
Win.
01/02/09
01/02/09
The lack of humility before a crowded laptop market that's being displayed here, uh... staggers me.
I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that HP and VooDoo are using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it.
They read what other modders like Ben Heck and Art Lebedev had done and you took the next step. HP and VooDoo didn't earn the knowledge for themselves, so they don't take any responsibility... for it.
They stood on the shoulders of modders to accomplish something as fast as they could and before they even knew what they had, they patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic hulking behemoth of a "laptop", and now -
They're selling it! They want to sell it!
01/02/09