>Weight 10KG MAX
The goal weight is 60% of the way there. Rounding to 50% for convenience, that means the prototype is around 20 kg or basically the weight of a large barbell plate. Imagine typing with that on your lap!
Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
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Re: Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they've committed to probably never getting laid for 7 lifetimes > you would rightly deserve every glare and smirk received for presenting this thing I think there's some valid criticism in your comment, and I don't think this design is very practical. That said, can we avoid this type of comment on HN? All kinds of geeks out there find things outside the norm interesting and I'm sure some community is interested i…
It's a valid concern, but please don't interpret the comment as snark. Speaking as an engineer, in absolute terms the competence of someone (or lack thereof) is clearly signalled with a setup like this. Perhaps it may have been better phrased in these terms. Similarly, the second comment regarding what I believe many would agree are obvious social implications arising from a device like this could also have been bett…
@othercharles
Not to worry - no offense taken.
That's the thing though...
Not one person who has seen and used this in person responded in ways you've mentioned.
We've also had very positive feedback and suggestions from around the globe.
However we welcome any constructive criticism as it provides an opportunity to improve.
Quite obviously you can't see a use case - however from your perspective as an engineer your feedback is still very important to us.
Could you elaborate further on what you mean by "social implications arising from a device like this".
Also your feedback from an engineering perspective would be useful too.
For clarity - this is our design philosophy in a nutshell: (https://expanscape.com/about-us/the-3-us/)
Re: Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
#143I'm also not quite sure what I'm looking at, but hn_expanscape seems to be serious about this, so I'll bite. hn_expanscape, what is the actual use-case for this device? You mention day-traders, but what about tiny screens sliding out from behind larger screens swiveling out from behind yet larger screens is helpful? Why is this better than one, much larger screen (i.e. a laptop with a 24" monitor or larger)? Why is t…
I can see use cases for this in film production, event management, various kinds of security work.
NGL I kinda want one to have a whole command station that fits in one box. This has nothing to do with my habit of having 3-400 open browser tabs at any given time.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zero compromise doesn’t mean you get what you want. Actually the opposite sometimes.
> Zero compromise doesn’t mean you get what you want Yes, it does. If I don't get all of what I want, then, ipso facto , the product involves some compromise. Now, if you mean “Zero compromise is almost always a marketing lie”, that's definitely true.
No, if the manufacturer decides to make the product however they want and not listen to any of the user’s needs or requests, that is zero compromise from them.
Re: Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
#145>Weight 10KG MAX The goal weight is 60% of the way there. Rounding to 50% for convenience, that means the prototype is around 20 kg or basically the weight of a large barbell plate. Imagine typing with that on your lap!
The weight is roughly 12kg. However there were other considerations/goals that it didn't meet that we haven't documented which is why it only met 60% of our target.
Re: Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
#146I'm also not quite sure what I'm looking at, but hn_expanscape seems to be serious about this, so I'll bite. hn_expanscape, what is the actual use-case for this device? You mention day-traders, but what about tiny screens sliding out from behind larger screens swiveling out from behind yet larger screens is helpful? Why is this better than one, much larger screen (i.e. a laptop with a 24" monitor or larger)? Why is t…
I can see use cases for this in film production, event management, various kinds of security work. NGL I kinda want one to have a whole command station that fits in one box. This has nothing to do with my habit of having 3-400 open browser tabs at any given time.
That's the idea!
Re: Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
#147There was a line of ThinkPads with two screens. I'm not really sure who they were aimed at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0ZlmLBCjQ
Hopefully the person sitting in front of it.
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#148Ok, this is clearly a joke / fun project that metastasized / etc, and it's also clearly awesome, but I gotta ask - why 7 screens? Why not 6? Or 8? They said that they wanted to design a mobile Security Operations Center - do people doing this work normally need exactly 7 screens worth of information? I've seen pictures of "Operation Centers" which have tons of screens so it's plausible that someone would need "a lot"…
Seven carries special symbolism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_of_the_number_7
Every number carries special symbolism. It's all nonsense numerology.
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#149I'm caught between a couple of possible use cases: * Perhaps this is similar to a potlatch or a peacock's tail: primarily a demonstration of social or genetic superiority. "If I can publicly waste resources on this sort of scale, imagine the sheer amount of pure nerd dominance I can summon!" * A related use: Like clothing with an excessive number of pockets and ordinary household tools inexplicably machined from heav…
That’s a very bleak worldview. If something doesn’t serve an immediate, obvious purpose, it is a waste and a drain on resources.
Re: Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a valid concern, but please don't interpret the comment as snark. Speaking as an engineer, in absolute terms the competence of someone (or lack thereof) is clearly signalled with a setup like this. Perhaps it may have been better phrased in these terms. Similarly, the second comment regarding what I believe many would agree are obvious social implications arising from a device like this could also have been bett…
@othercharles Not to worry - no offense taken. That's the thing though... Not one person who has seen and used this in person responded in ways you've mentioned. We've also had very positive feedback and suggestions from around the globe. However we welcome any constructive criticism as it provides an opportunity to improve. Quite obviously you can't see a use case - however from your perspective as an engineer your…
"Social implications" angle is quite straightforward,
- to the informed, a device like this should not be necessary. It did not exist because it was never required, and where a desire for mobile screenspace is required, better solutions have existed for a long time. I define "better" as "less hinges", "more optional", "cheaper", and ideas along this dimension. A skilled engineer carrying this without an extraordinary reason would automatically strike me as a deeply impractical person, thus limiting the trust I would be willing to place in them. I appreciate trying to push boundaries, but the instant interpretation is that it could only be intended as something like a souped up Mini Cooper covered in blinking LEDs and under-the-hood neon lighting.
- to the uninformed, a laptop like this basically scares normal people away. One of the greatest accomplishments of the technology industry in the past 10 years is that regular people now carry laptops. There is no longer any reason to stand out, so it is even more noteworthy than ever before when one explicitly chooses to stand out (we lost our "special case" rights no later than 2010). You can pack an 8-core workstation with 16TB of NVMe in a perfectly useful and unobtrusive device the average person might only suspect were slightly outdated. The tone set by this device would be the same as wheeling a minicomputer into a coffee shop in the mid 1980s -- outlandish, curious, unaware of social norms. It would be as if you'd willingly dress in a neon pink 80s shell suit out of a desire to avoid being hit by passing cars, when the alternative is simply to stay on the sidewalk.
Social norms matter. They open doors just as easily as they slam doors shut. And this laptop most certainly would have people saying "no" more often in relative terms than they might say "yes" to you, much as turning up to a business meeting wearing that neon shell suit rather than a formal jacket would in most scenarios.
I hope this helps