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Any laptop engineers out there: I want a screen that I can detach from the laptop, velcro it to a wall or to a stand and let me use my laptop with good posture.
25 years of laptops and we still have these damn screens on them that are physically attached to the computer. Any laptop engineers out there: I want a screen that I can detach from the laptop, velcro it to a wall or to a stand and let me use my laptop with good posture.
How can you have a history of portable computing and not say a single thing about LCDs? The innovation that contributed most to adoption of notebook computers was the TFT screens with wider viewing angle and better colors. The article talks about the CNC used to make the sleek computers of today. But it wasn't any deficiency of manufacturing that made old laptops look boxy. They had to build the frames to block as mu…
There were laptops with plasma screens (grid compass 2 = turret from 'Aliens'), or EL. At least plasma ones had no trouble with direct sunlight. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/rugrid-laptop
25 years of laptops and we still have these damn screens on them that are physically attached to the computer. Any laptop engineers out there: I want a screen that I can detach from the laptop, velcro it to a wall or to a stand and let me use my laptop with good posture.
"battery gains have been mostly linear for the last 25 years" After a whole paragraph about how Li-ion improves by ~5% per year. Reporters don't understand what exponential means!
Growth of 5% per year is geometric, not exponential.
Previous submission from 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9637015 , which is funny because the article says it was published yesterday.
If you check that submission you'll notice that it's on the European version of ars, while this is on the US edition. It seems the two publications are not aligned.