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This thing needs an OS that swaps between keyboard and touch mode easily.]]>Aug 6th 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/I prefer one screen over two tbh. This just looks weird.]]>Aug 6th 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
There are a lot of compromises moving from a concept video to the real world. ]]>Aug 6th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
No. Courier uses an active digitizer pen as a form of input. This isn't what courier would be, cause it isn't courier.]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Ok. Add $200 more for dual active digitizers.... Do you see the pricing problem?]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Agreed. There's really no replacement for the courier, it was truly tomorrow's computational device, Microsoft just caught on to trends too fast for us dumb consumers. ]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Indeed, I believe that familiarity reigns supreme and in the concept video the courier looked extremely hard to get to grips with.]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/as economy of scale increases for the active digitizer the price should drop]]>Aug 7th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Make the community something that looks and works like the software on the 'Concept' : Courier.

Thanks, Lets all get Working! ]]>Aug 6th 2010 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
"No, I need to see where I'm typing because I can't feel the keys. I also am having trouble seeing the keys because of the reflectivity...."

"Why?"

"Because I made a stupid investment in this laptop".]]>Aug 6th 2010 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/If it had two capacitive IPS screens like the iPad uses it'd be worth the price for me. That is...if I had 1000$ to spare.]]>Aug 6th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
I understand that would be insanely expensive, but if you think about it, that could very well be the direction in which the laptop concept should be moving: customizable soft keyboards that can take touch input AND function as extra screens too.]]>Aug 6th 2010 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Yeah, that seems to be just one step away from many all-in-one desktops.]]>Aug 6th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
1) Courier OS (of course if it weren't cancelled) or heavily tweaked Android OS. While Windows 7 WORKS with touch screens, the existing GUI and most applications are not designed for it. The screen size it too small to try and hit the various GUI elements when running Windows. Android would probably work very well.

2) Dual Pixel Qi screens to be viewable outdoors and useful as a dual page ebook reader. It is a sin for a dual screen device like this to not be viewable under direct sun or bright overhead lighting when laying flat.

3) A Wacom active digitizer that can be used WITH the touch screens.

If had any or all of the above features I would snatch the device up in a second, but as it is now it is only a strange technological curiosity. I imagine in daily use it would be an awkward compromise to use. ]]>Aug 6th 2010 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Hmmm...Unique design....but the question is whether people will spend $1000+ on this? IMHO it is confusing!]]>Aug 6th 2010 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Seriously though, my post dramatic stress from ms killing the courier was almost relieved until I saw the price tag.]]>Aug 6th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
It is also more than twice the machine of an iPad. It is worth more than twice an iPad to run real programs on it, and video conference, and visit the Internet the way it was intended, complete with all the plugins I could want, and play any video format without converting through iTunes.

Oh, and if you beef up the iPad, it costs $800+. This isn't much more than that.]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
I doubt this thing will have 3G. So, that means that it would compete with the $699 version of the iPad. That's a 57% increase over the price of the iPad. I'd say that's a pretty significant difference.]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Funny. It DOES have two capacitive touch screens!]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Agreed. And still no active digitizer on this thing? No deal, Toshiba. I want a tablet so bad, but I refuse to buy one until I can use it as a legitimate note-taking device. That's the primary reason I won't buy an iPad, and a second screen isn't going to make up for that.]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Save $100 by duct taping two iPads together. True multitasking! ]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/IPS screens son.]]>Aug 6th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
If it had them and it cost half as much I would consider it, otherwise gtfo here Tosh.]]>Aug 6th 2010 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Would that be Apple approved duct tape? Or, I could see someone coming out with a hinge accessories that would connect to iPads together to form a clamshell. ]]>Aug 6th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Check out those shitty viewing angles, they're using cheap TN panels not IPS.

That's a huge mistake for a screen that is, by design, going to be viewed at an angle off-center.]]>Aug 6th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
Personally... if they took this technology and put it into a flexible display...weren't we suppose to have those out yet? ]]>Aug 6th 2010 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
$1100 is way too much, but how much does say a Dell Mini 10 cost in Japan?

In my experience, technological and automotive products are sometimes as much as half the price in the US. ]]>Aug 6th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/]]>Aug 6th 2010 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/You said it. I still can't believe people thought the courier was real.
And in the courier video,how the hell did they move the pointer from one side,through the hinge in the middle, and to the other side?MM.]]>Aug 6th 2010 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
That is all.]]>Aug 6th 2010 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 10:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 6th 2010 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/
You can only finger paint. It doesn't appear to have an active pen digitizer. ]]>Aug 7th 2010 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/06/toshibas-dual-screen-libretto-w100-hits-japan-next-week/Aug 7th 2010 1:09AM