We've known about
Onkyo's DX dual-screened netbook for quite awhile, but it's another thing entirely to see it extend its two 10-inch screens in person. On display at the Microsoft booth here at
Computex, the Onkyo is still a rebadge of the
Konjinsha DZ that we saw at CEATAC last year, but has a 1,366 × 768-resolution display rather than the Konjinsha's 1,024 x 600. In our short hands-on time we found the screens to extend smoothly, but the hinge did feel a bit weak, though that could very likely be the result of being used and abused on the show floor. We were able to drag windows to the second monitor without a problem, so if you were concerned that the learning curve would be too steep, fret not. The most interesting thing about the netbook is that it turns into a handheld device of sorts -- when you pull the screens back in, you can flip it around and hold it up. For some odd reason it doesn't have a touchscreen, so you have to use an optical mouse on the side to navigate within Windows 7. If anything, the DX needs an internal upgrade since it still packs a first generation AMD Neo processor, but we're sure that'll come in time. See it all for yourself in the video after the break.
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posted June 6th 2010 1:32AM
If only these thing were affordable. I'll gladly trade in my laptop 16.4" LCD 1080p for this.
umm....wrong picture gallery???
You might want to check that again Joana.
@abedinthehouse
Sweet it comes with an eReader. Three screens?
What is the point of two screens on a netbook? I thought netbooks are supposed to be very portable. And they can hardly handle the crappy one screen resolution, let alone double.
Ewww, it's a netbook. NVM, thought it was a laptop.
@abedinthehouse Sorry about that! Fixed now.
@Teerim
netbook specs aside, I think there's no reason not to want a (very) portable machine with more screen space. I love the idea, but only if it had non-netbook specs and a decent price...
@Joanna Stern
Thanks, keep up the great work!
@shithead It's fixed now. And I must say, this is another icebreaker from Onkyo. http://j.mp/2xscreen-nbooks-again
This looks nice but it be better if it had the touch screen capabilities but,
I'm still waiting for a tablet with the full Windows 7 OS, a few usb ports, hdmi, cd/dvd burner, and at least a 720p definition. I'll gladly get rid of my old, over heating, HP laptop. As long as the tablet is not over $1,000.
@SskyNnet
A tablet? Imagine a moment the DVD spinning at 16x and you are moving the device. Pick up your existing laptop, give it a go.
Imagine holding the thing in one hand, with a centrifuge at one end and a bunch of loosely fitting USB devices plugged in the other end.
Oh yeah... Chuck in a couple quad xeons and a dual hdd while yer at it. Just to get thing real heavy and kinda dangerous.
@Cy Starkman DVD spinning? ... Nah.. downloads.
@SskyNnet tablet with CD/DVD burner = fail
@Formul Yes it is weird to have a CD/DVD burner but it is still something that I use I wouldn't want to be switching over from a tablet to a laptop. And I also use the USB for a semi-higher end microphone, but well one can dream
@SskyNnet
i love this design. now if only we could get specs like those of x201/z11.
Pretty neat. Two monitors is really nice, well beyond just the screen real estate.
Do want.
how nifty
useless
@Quetzalcoatl
Agreed, and it just looks awful too.
I concur
@Quetzalcoatl
Useless???
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FULLSCREEN!!!
@Quetzalcoatl
"This seems useless to me, but I suppose it might be useful for some people"
Fixed!
Wonder if I could Hackintosh this thing.
@youngluck
My thoughts exactly.
I am perplexed. I don't understand what type of consumer needs a portable computer with dual screens but doesn't want a laptop. When I think of someone needing a dual screen set up, I think of a power user. A netbook for a power user? Or does "netbook" now just mean "portable without an optical drive"?
I thought a notebook without a dvd drive + thin and light was an ultraportable.
neat but it is just too fat.
Wrong gallery.
@angelusp
Perhaps two screens vertically orientated so netbooks can move beyond the 90's
I reckon a thin film origami style display that folds out to 6 times bigger than the device. That would be innovation. I suspect we shall see this in 5 years, netbooks can then get a third try at taking over the world.
If I were a midget then yeah this would be cool... Otherwise its embarrassing to be seen in public with.
I can see this being a great boon to Dungeon Masters the world over. Oh, that would be so nice. Especially if it had a touchscreen setup.
Who puts money behind rubbish ideas like this? Here's an idea, design software that's intuitive enough to not require dual displays... on a flippin' netbook, which is supposed to be portable anyway.
@jay mo
Looks like live messenger is running, that sure uses allot of screen real estate with all the bloat these days, especially on 10" screens.
lol why do I get this weird feeling that people are gonna fuck up those screens and break them?
Or that there will just be some problem with those screens. But it'll be all fixed, after the recall.
Sorry, just looks SO prone to damage. Other than that, that's rather nice. Although.. the point of a laptop is to make it portable.
Looks nice (ooh, high-DPI)... but they should make up their minds:
Either keep it pivotable, and add pen and/or touch to one or both of the displays... or make it non-pivotable.
As it is right now, it looks like it'd break easily, for no good reason.
Oh, and they should stick an Evergreen series ATI card in it... so you can use the two internal displays (would have to be DisplayPort) with at least one external display.
So not only is it a dual-screen netbook, it's a convertible Tablet PC, too? Sweet!
...Wait, what? No touchscreen, let alone a Wacom pen digitizer? What a shame. Might be difficult with that screen arrangement, but I could see artists leveraging the extra screen space pretty easily.
Without a touchscreen, useless as a tablet. Shame when companies do 90% of the innovating hard work and fall at the last hurdle b/c of time/money constraints...
kinda uselsess really.. netbook... dual screen???
aren't dual screens mend for people who does things like editing and design ... not the kind of netbook things :p
METROPLEX TRANSFORM!!!!
Give it Mac OS X and I'll buy this
Very cool concept. I dunno if I'd buy it though. If you ever used a netbook, screen real estate can be a bit minimal, this fixes that. No touchscreen is kinda fail if you're doing a tablet form factor. Wondering on the the weight.
To me, this thing is like the xpPhone. It looks cool but it lacks any real purpose.
It may server a purpose for someone I suppose but I just don't see it.
Dual screens isn't JUST for power users. Web browser on one, msn windows on the other. Have iTunes open on one, etc. There are lots of good uses for dual displays.
Two displays means thicker top part. So when you convert that "thing" into a tablet, it becomes something that is as thick as a sofa. Which raises the question: how is it a Netbook? I thought that netbooks were designed to be light and portable, not heavy and thick. I bet battery life sucks too.
slap this concept on a real laptop!!!
I'd buy it if it had proper cpu/gpu
and make it two 15-17 inch monitors at 1080p
Why would someone do this??