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What a dumb concept, no wonder they didn't bother to market it. Why have a tiny useless screen directly under a cramped oddly-sized screen? One larger screen overall makes up for all that wasted space on either side of the tiny 2nd screen. I would also add that other laptops have offered SLI video and similar performance in amuch sexier and sleeker package...
This laptop is epic fail... making 50 or 60 of them was 50 or 60 too many.
Lugging this beast to class would have been awesome. You could almost hide behind this thing during a lecture.
I wasted many a class period playing Diablo II over the wifi, but I would hate to know that people walking by on the sidewalks could see what I was doing.
I'm sorry. Until I see what kind of bacon he eats, I'm not buying.
Something's off here. I suspect that Mr. McKinney eats Canadian bacon and until he proves otherwise I don't trust him. I think the waffle is a distraction.
@ANSIx12: Bacon and fatback are not interchangeable. If I want cracklins, I'll eat cracklins. But usually, I eat cracklins when fishing - not for breakfasts. I don't even eat cracklins at second breakfasts.
Fried salmon patties? Perhaps gravlax. But that's completely different from a salmon patty.
@OMG! Ponies!: Ah, you just don't know what's good. Add Scrapple to the list too while we're at it. Man, I'm all hungry and stuff now,... Thanks guys/gals. ...Guess it's waffles and bacon for dinner.
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 -
01/10/09
This laptop is epic fail... making 50 or 60 of them was 50 or 60 too many.
01/09/09
I wasted many a class period playing Diablo II over the wifi, but I would hate to know that people walking by on the sidewalks could see what I was doing.
01/09/09
Something's off here. I suspect that Mr. McKinney eats Canadian bacon and until he proves otherwise I don't trust him. I think the waffle is a distraction.
01/09/09
01/09/09
Interesting concept, however its practicality I just can't wrap my mind around.
01/09/09
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01/09/09
Fried salmon patties? Perhaps gravlax. But that's completely different from a salmon patty.
Congratulations. You fail at breakfast.
01/09/09
No really, thanks guys, that sounds great!
01/02/09
01/02/09
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