http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/ Engadget Comments for Dialogue's Flybook VM laptop with airline friendly telescoping screen http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/
Ummm.... random Apple comment? Didn't Intel design swingarm laptops?]]>Jun 8th 2006 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/
I'm really considering this being my next laptop.]]>Jun 8th 2006 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/
Thomas]]>Jun 8th 2006 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/Jun 8th 2006 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/
Anyways, this seems great, not just for flying, the prob. I have with my laptop is its unergonimical stance with the "low" screen and keyboard too close... this laptop can help solve those problems without having to get that external keyboard monitor etc..]]>Jun 8th 2006 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/Jun 8th 2006 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/Jun 8th 2006 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/Jun 8th 2006 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/Jun 8th 2006 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/
OR I could save my thousands of dollars for bloody marys on the plane.]]>Jun 8th 2006 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/Jun 8th 2006 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/
I noticed the same thing - my first reaction was "neat, the commoner in the seat in front of me nearly broke my lappy last week", but then I noticed that I wouldn't actually be able to work (at least according to the picts).

Maybe play solitare or something. heh

-bw
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Anyway, I do own a Flybook A33i, one of those with the twistable screen. So, in reply to Dustin:

I never needed their customer support so I can't say anything about it, but regarding the quality of it I can say that I never had any problems with it though it feels a bit cheap having a pure plastic casing. It would be nice if it would be sturdier, but it never faild me anyway.

There are two issues though. First, there are no hardware buttons for things like left-click or cursor movement when you use it in tablet mode. And second in tablet mode the audio is pretty bad. The speakers are not good as can be expected, but in tablet mode you will even get bad audio when using headphones.

The screen is brilliant and the keyboard feels good if you can work with the small size. All together, I love it for being so small and versatile.
]]>Jun 8th 2006 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/Jun 8th 2006 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/flybook-vm-laptop-with-airline-friendly-telescoping-screen/the case indeed is not very good looking, but it packs a lot of technology in that small form factor. the phone idea is really good and u can use it whenever there's no wi-fi around.
pair it with a bluetooh headphone and you're all set.
as for this little baby, i guess you can use the touchscreen for working while flying...]]>Jun 8th 2006 6:55PM