Remember IBM's ThinkPad 701 with the butterfly keyboard? This isn't it, it's better... conceptually anyway. Instead of two halves of a keyboard magically jigsawing themselves together, Kohjinsha achieves a similar result with its DZ-series using a pair of 10.1-inch TFT displays with 1,024 x 600 pixel resolution (each) packed into an otherwise svelte 1.02 x 8.26 x 0.74~1.65 inches / 4.09 pounds (1.84 kg) portable. Best of all it's on sale now for ¥95,800 (about $1,110) with a Linux pre-load -- add another ¥5,000 (about $58) for 32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. For that you get a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon Neo with RS780MN chipset and ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 3x USB, a 3-in-1 card reader, 1.3 megapixel webcam, 1GB memory (expandable to 4GB), and 160GB 5,400RPM hard disk with claimed 4.5-hours "max" of battery power (1.1V, 5200mAh) -- likely far less in real-world usage. Ships worldwide ($60ish for US or €50ish for European delivery) in 3 weeks if you order today. Video of the sliding action after the break from our
hands-on session back at the CEATEC show in Japan.
posted November 27th 2009 2:04AM
you might wanna look in to some geometry - two 15" screens don't make a 30" screen
Holy shit.
It's erected, Eureka!
can i have that second thingy on ma phone?
That's awesome!!
@senseless1707
No, it's got a vertical resolution of 600, I can tolerate that on computers that cost $1000.
@senseless1707
Engadget comment system learned a new trick: it cut out half of my message that had less than/greater than signs. Let's try this again:
"No, it's got a vertical resolution of 600, I can tolerate that on computers that cost less than $400, I'm not about to take it on a system that's going to set me back more than $1000."
@MrDiSante
I think it's a cool idea, I wasn't implying that I was going to drop $1000 on it...
I have to agree, that really is awesome. Once you've used multiple displays, you'll finding using a single one an immensely limiting and frustrating experience. This would be perfect for a cell phone, where the slide-out keyboard could be replaced by a second screen (they could call it the iPhone DS).
I think this is a brilliant program for Uni students or people who work way. People who need to move their PC from location to location fairly regularly but leave it in one place to work.
Considering the fancy screens, I would have expected more impressive specs. I would have thought that we would have seen screens like this on a gaming laptop first rather than on a tarted up netbook.
Still tempted to get one though.
At least it has an AMD cpu combo that has a pretty solid dual core variant, and thankfully the gpu is better than gma500/950 most netbooks have.
If I was an accountant/auditor who spends all day staring into excel on a laptop, I'd be all over this.
Or quit.
I did the latter.
@UnixSystemsEngineer
Or anything that use Lotus Notes... half the screen (and memory) for notes and the rest for other task.
x-(
@UnixSystemsEngineer
...and 160GB 5,4000 hard disk with claimed 4.5-hours "max" of battery power...
54k hard disk?? whoa, I would just buy the laptop, take out the hard disk and sell it to IBM and make a fortune.
I wonder when they´ll include that tech into real notebooks instead of souped-up calculators.
Looks cool, Is the screen "touchable"?
If the aim of the game is to enable you to see more information the resolutions look a bit poor.
gScreen here in Alaska is supposed to have their Dual Screen laptops available soon on Amazon for anyone to buy...
Screen real-estate doubles.
Place to put your latte next to it shrinks.
It needs cup-holders.
All that engineering prowess wasted on just 600 vertical lines screens. It's like putting an electric milk-float engine in a Hummer convertible.
A 1440x900 monitor has slightly more screen estate than these two 1024x600 panels. You'd have to ask ourself whether it's all worth it or not. I mean, the extra the extra battery drain (2 panels surely drain more current than 1, even if smaller, just think of the back-light), the hinge, the slider, display drivers, expectable incompatibilities with certain OS's not to mention extra weight and thickness...
Not to mention you'll probably be more productive with 900 pixel height rather than 600.
@Buzz all laptops have dual screen support written in their drivers. its in case sum1 wants to connect a projector, to their laptops so no special drivers needed LOL, and what incompatabilities with other OS's? apples can dual screen fine so can any other Unix and windows machines. if they couldn't some poor business guy probably is crying over the fact he can't show his presentation using a projector simply because the drivers dont' support outputting to 2 screens. But other than that yeah having this double screen design in a netbook is absolutely stupid.. its more suited to gaming laptops that barely last an hour with their sli graphics cards and their giant 27 inch screen size/
Went to Geekstuff4you and the do not have the item listed. Conics.net has it listed for about $1000. A bit steep but love the concept.
@va jj
Yeah, but this one doesn't do it automatically when kids are around.
Engadget, did you forget about this one? http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/dual-screen-gscreen-laptop-gets-pictured-hopefully-launching-th/
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"160GB 5,4000 hard disk"
I'm hoping that is a typo,otherwise - Holy Shit I want!
I just hope the guy sitting next to me in couch doesn't have one of these.
Still doesn't look as good as the PCWORLD Ultimate Laptop. When this becomes reality (like in 5yrs) then I'll say "Holy Shit ME WANT!" and it utilizes currently available components.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156233/the_ultimate_laptop_to_replace_a_desktop_what_we_want.html
Looking at the history of dual-screen laptop's it seems another one is made aside from Lenovo. The gScreen corporation released the gScreen Laptop. One of its key difference with this JAP-release is the gscreen laptop has a single screen of 15 inch (LOL) so it will give you a totality of 30inch. Though the caveat is - its price is 3k USD (since last july)
I guess this laptop are for people who are savvy multimedia editor.
Detailed Dual-Screen Review: http://bit.ly/dual-screen-lenovo-by-ibm
Why stop at 10'? They should have made a dual 17' monster out of this, packed with some good specs they probably could have sold a whole bunch of them to creative professionals.
Yawn!
Wake me up when they make triple screen one.