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I mean, that demo model looks like a hot mess of ripples and artefacts from this angle.
What the fuck do you even do on a tall scree… Oh its basically a portable vertical monitor
I use dual monitors one on top of each other. If I had this I would simply stack 2 windows.
Was wondering when someone would finally do it. Rollable phones next, please?
Ever since the first foldable screens were announced in the 2010s, I’ve had this idea for a cylindrical tube-shaped phone. Tube contains the battery, cameras, buttons, and ports. Pull on a tab and the screen rolls out. Pull a little more, and now the screen is tablet-sized. Like unraveling a roll of film. I could see this design replacing foldables.
The only part I haven’t figured out yet is how to make the screen rigid enough for use. Maybe using some sort of chain-link latching system?
Maybe get that patent sorted out quickly?
Looking forward to the HTC Torah
Seems like a cool idea, but those screens aren’t really ready for this type of prime time.
Foldable phone screens have been around for 5 years, flexible screens longer than that. The tech has been around and ready there’s just not heavy adoption yet.
It seems ideal for wristwear.
It’s been around, and is ready for some implementations, but it’s not ready for prime time, and, IMO, a $3400 laptop is prime time.
I have a better idea: a laptop screen that is legible on a sunny day
so eink pretty much though the refresh rate is shit
I have an even better idea: A built in webcam that has more an 2 damn pixels
Honest question. Why do you need a selfie camera on a laptop that’s more than 2MP? I don’t even think Teams/Zoom/Jitsi/etc can stream that much anyway.
I’ve had times where I need to take a photo of a piece of paper to turn in online for school. You can’t read the text if you hold it up to the camera, atleast on my modern laptop.
Also just because it was literally like ~850 bucks (iirc), it should be able to take a decent photo for that insane of a price.You’d probably be better off using your phone for taking photos of papers. Better camera, better angle/lighting, generally better editing options (with default photo apps, imo Photoshop is overkill for taking a picture of a document, generally I only adjust brightness and contrast). The only downside is needing to get the photo to the laptop, but there’s about a million ways to do that depending on your setup.
The built-in cameras use cases are video conferences, so they use the “afterthought” cameras (cheapest they can). I understand your use case, and I agree that the camera quality is shite, never mind the MP count. My 2005 phone shouldn’t have had a camera better than my 2024 laptop. Period.
I want a laptop with a trackpoint, keyboard with good (like Model M) key travel and resistance (and water resilience too), color e-ink display (preferably 5:4 or 4:3 screen ratio) with good refresh rate, everything removable, 5G modem, GPIO, additional SSD slot, good set and amount of interfaces (not an Apple fan), and - important - chassis and hinges not made of shit.
Just in case somebody from Lenovo is lurking here.
like Model M
Imagine a laptop with a low-profile buckling spring keyboard… just click-clacking away in Starbucks, annoying everyone around you but you don’t care because you have the greatest keyboard ever
They can be silent too, so not even that problem.
Also where I sometimes go with a laptop, nobody will hear the click-clacking.
Why?
Bigger screen without bigger form factor?
It could have been so simple: the display on a roll with a spring and a sensor to keep track and rescale the resolution accordingly. You pull at the top to extend the display to x2 and more and be done. Maybe add a scissor at the back to keep the foil without wrinkles. It would have been old-Lenovo-style sturdy instead of the plaything with a motor that breaks after 2 years.
Pass
Bring back the trackpoint you bastards !
And the three buttons!
They didn’t take the TrackPoint away, did they?!
Edit: They really did… Way to kill a brand guys. I blame every goddamn tech journalist who wanted it gone, fuck you so much.
RIP nubbin
We need track points on handheld PCs. Are they patented?
No, as far as I know the first GPD Win had one even
I blame every goddamn tech journalist who wanted it gone
Weird if heir PMs and such really believed people who are clearly companies’ PR and not representation of anything real, instead of focus groups.
It really seems like every other review of a ThinkPad is written by someone who’s constantly whining about the dimensions of the device (too thick, to bulky) and/or the design, with most of them ending up begging Lenovo to remove the useless nub thing on the keyboard because no one uses it anyways and while they’re at it a larger touchpad and better speakers and bla bla…
Basically, most reviewers expect everything to be a MacBook clone and can’t cope with the fact that business users don’t necessarily care about design.
The reasons old ThinkPads were are better than MacBooks (except for being old) are about design too.
For me ThinkPads are beautiful and convenient, while MacBooks are ugly and inconvenient.
Most people simply don’t have an opinion of their own, they get theirs from “social media influencers” (something that once meant the leaders of that clueless crowd, usually bribed by companies, and now means in fact not separate humans, but teams, employed by companies).
And that’s where Apple shined, it really managed to promise apes a lift in status by backing them. Almost a Fender Stratocaster level feeling. Not just that, if you do some digital archaeology, you’ll find that around year 1999 many people seriously considered Apple to be some kind of counterculture, underground etc thing. That doesn’t work anymore, because Steve Jobs lost the battle against his own ignorance and died, but frankly I think it stopped working after iPhone. Wrong kind of propaganda and wrong kind of audience to be compatible with the old image.
Still that image was rather strong. One can still sometimes find traces of it. Hotline and KDX software, and that idea of convenience of GUI programs.
It’s the thinkpad x9 for anyone that wondered the model.
Bring back the unfolding keyboard (and the gummy trackpoint). 😂
Lenovo is really good at turning the coolest technology into absolutely useless laptops.
People hating on this but as someone who codes on the road I’d legit buy it if not the price tag. The vertical space is incredible!
Same. I love vertical real estate
Same. A lot of people in here are definitely not the target market. Taller screens are always better for coding. I also think for just general multitasking too. You can have secondary windows up top of on the bottom but you can make the main thing your working on biggest than what it would be on a standard 16:9/10 monitor which is great.
Can they make laptops with hinges that don’t break?
I’ve had two Thinkpads ~15 years and neither had hinges break. The first died due to water damage (the water protection can only do so much), and the second has been with me for almost 7 years now. Both were carried around in backpacks, dropped a few times (current one has a chip from falling off the counter onto a hard floor too many times), and the current one has been abused by young children (slamming the lid, standing on it, etc).
If you’re buying a Lenovo laptop that’s not a Thinkpad, I don’t know what to tell you, that’s on you.
T-series?
They can, my x230’s hinges are still good
To be fair, Lenovo also made the ThinkPad. You could throw those down a flight of stairs and they wouldn’t break
Source: I once dropped a thinkpad down a flight of stairs.
Meh I reckon 75% of that was IBM. I also had an ideapad that would survive literally nothing
i get this is a first gen but wow that looks awful. so many wrinkles. not mature enough to be revealed yet imo.
This is actually not the first year it’s been demoed. Last year it was just a proof of concept. It will take time to work the bugs out.
