Gizmodo: dual-screen laptop

Lenovo 'Ad' Does Great Disservice to the W700ds, Humanity

John Herrman — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:21:13 EST

This video, in short: an creepy guy tells a ridiculous story involving a lusty lady and a Lenovo W700ds. He brags about his second screen, then makes a joke about his presumably large genitals. Genius!

CNET seems to think this came from within Lenovo, but I'd think even the most tone-deaf marketing division would never to let this leave the screening room and fire whoever brought it to them.

In a way, it actually is kind of genius, but only if viewed as a reductio ad absurdum argument against sex in marketing. In the sequel, our fine protagonist will wake up, realize the last ad was all a dream and open up his dual screen, 500GB RAID, integrated tablet Lenovo W700ds to start looking up ways to kill himself. CNET will also call this an official Lenovo video. [CNET]

HP Firefly Has Two Screens, Multitouch, Big Huge Butt

John Herrman — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:18:36 EST

HP is finally joining this weird, new multiple display party with the Voodoo DNA-ed Firefly, which carries a secondary screen, an oddly-placed multitouch trackpad and guts comparable to its powerful desktop counterpart.

LaptopMag has a full hands-on with a prototype unit, which should be on display at CES. They're generally impressed, as for all the bold changes in form factor, this hunkering monstrosity still seems to retain its usability.

The secondary screen got mixed reviews. It's sharp, at 800x480, but a bit too small for displaying such finely resolved text. The Voodoo's multitouch trackpad has evolved, and it's apparently lovely and the placement is a welcome change for occasional mouseless gaming.

The Firefly concept is not currently slated for production, but seeing as Voodoo and HP don't currently have a desktop replacement notebook of this caliber, we'll probably see something similar ship before too long. [LaptopMag via Electronista]

Estari's Dual-Screen Laptop Nearing Launch

Louis Ramirez — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:28:02 EST

It's not the same dual-screen laptop we showed you before, but for $4,350 you can now pre-order the closest thing to it—Estari's 2-VU notebook. The 2-VU comes with two 15-inch XGA touch-screens that you can use for extreme spreadsheeting, Web-browsing, or anything else you throw its way. I think the system's price is over the top especially since it's only running an Intel dual-core CPU and you can buy two 15-inch laptops for that kinda money, but if you've ever dreamed of owning a giant Nintendo DS, here's your chance. – Louis Ramirez

Product Page [via Electronista]

Canova's Dual-Screen Laptop Likes Being Touched

Louis Ramirez — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:35:48 EST

I'm not a big fan of touch-screens (or Tablets for that matter), but I gotta admit—Canova's dual-screen laptop concept is pretty cool. For reading online books or the newspaper—it's a definite shoe-in. Even for editing photos it looks like it'd give Wacom a run for their money since you'd be able to use the bottom screen for "writing" and the top screen to see your edits. But for daily Web browsing and writing, I'm not so sure it'd jive. Either way it's only a concept—one that we'd definitely be interested in checking out. – Louis Ramirez

Product Page [via Born Rich via Trend Hunter]