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That's 22 lbs. About the same weight as a stack of 20+ thick books!
And unless my eyes are fooling me, when folded, the laptop's seven -- seven! --screens are held together with... velcro? See here: https://expanscape.com/the-aurora-7-prototype/screen-transit...
Is this thing for real?
I think it would be really neat if all the screens were mounted with some form of a clever "multimonitor mount arm" kind of setup - it could have a really flat version of that in the back, such that when the laptop is opened, the screens' individual position could be adjusted along multiple axes.
One thing that I do notice about this design, however, is that the screens are all different sizes and are assembled a little bit haphazardly - I wonder if the screens were more uniform in size, and the aesthetic design more clean-looking, the unit would be less visually distracting and allow the user to focus more on the screen content, similar to the look of a homogenous array of monitors.
The memo initially said to design a 7" screen laptop, but the " character got lost in communication. This is how this monstrosity was born.
I seem to remember about 10 years ago or so, when that kind of tiny 7-10" laptop was briefly popular. I don't know exactly how the marketing went, but I imagine it was positioned as "your on the go device for when your phone isn't enough." Or, maybe it was kind of like a "super PDA." Who knows? I hated them. Never bought one.
You mentioned elsewhere that you have a four-monitor variant... any public page for that? And what's pricing on these like? (the smaller) $20k? 30?
This right here is what Hacker News is really about. Somebody wanted a specialized computer, hacked one together, and is now looking at running a nice boutique device business. Best of luck and looking forward to seeing more of your designs!
PS: Typo -- 'third "interation"' at https://expanscape.com/the-aurora-7-prototype/a7-m3-prototyp...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I seem to remember about 10 years ago or so, when that kind of tiny 7-10" laptop was briefly popular. I don't know exactly how the marketing went, but I imagine it was positioned as "your on the go device for when your phone isn't enough." Or, maybe it was kind of like a "super PDA." Who knows? I hated them. Never bought one.
even before 'netbooks' existed there were much earlier attempts at very tiny laptops with 70-80% size keyboards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Libretto
I think it sparked my love of tiny computers, which I have far too many of today.
I'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…
But I'd cringe a bit folding out all those displays in public, and wouldn't want the attention it would draw, if people thought I tried to be a 'cool' member of the aforementioned groups.
At home, I could just have my seven regular displays.
The memo initially said to design a 7" screen laptop, but the " character got lost in communication. This is how this monstrosity was born.
The memo initially said to design a 7" screen laptop, but the " character got lost in communication. This is how this monstrosity was born.
Funny you should say that. I'm a blind screen reader user, and assumed this was some new 7-inch laptop. Since I don't need a huge screen, I'm always on the lookout for small, performant laptops. Seems this one is anything but. :) Glad I read the comments first.
It's the smallest non-Atom, non-eMMC laptop. It's basically a 2018 Macbook Air folded in half both directions.