Seems like a 17" laptop with some iPads attached to the sides for extending screens onto would work fine too.
The screens on the sides are Thinkpad screens. There was one with a pull-out 800x600 auxiliary screen in addition to the 17" (IIRC) screen.
Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
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#32Is your productivity also a function of pixels? Sometimes, when I have a deadline approaching, I simply ask for more pixels.
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#33The memo initially said to design a 7" screen laptop, but the " character got lost in communication. This is how this monstrosity was born.
A manager left a note for another manager to pay me .25 hours of overtime. I received 25 hours of OT pay. That's why you lead decimals with a zero. (I reported the discrepancy which is how I found out.)
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#34> "A laptop with exactly zero compromises" I mean the size, weight, awkwardness and small trackpad all seem like compromises to me. I'd suspect the battery life too. And some of the screens aren't placed in the most practical of locations. That said it's a pretty impressive prototype.
According to the specs, this 12KG laptop gets 28 minutes at full power on batteries >_ And it's not allowed on airplanes..
Seriously? 12 kilos? That's heavier than an Osborne 1 [0], and that was considered a luggable computer rather than a laptop per se.
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#35This reminds me of how I once needed to look at a bunch of screens at once, so I made an app for cardboard VR that put a sphere of virtual screens hanging in the air all around me. All I had to do was swivel in my chair. The resolution was a bit low, but it sort of worked nevertheless. That was a fun hack, but not nearly as fun as building this monster I bet.
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#36Ok, 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" of screens, but I can't tell if this would actually achieve the goal of being a mobile SOC.
(My gut feeling is that they were trying to see how many screens they could put onto a single laptop, moreso than that small screen next to the touchpad actually being genuinely, uniquely useful, but I'd love to know for sure if each screen actually has a specific purpose)
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#37Does it have a loud mechanical keyboard though...?
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#38> "A laptop with exactly zero compromises" I mean the size, weight, awkwardness and small trackpad all seem like compromises to me. I'd suspect the battery life too. And some of the screens aren't placed in the most practical of locations. That said it's a pretty impressive prototype.
I prefer the version with the printer: https://i.imgur.com/RCgJg6F.gif
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#39The 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.
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#40Ok, 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"…
Why not 6? Or 8?
Because 8 is too many and 6 is clearly not enough. This is what separates the Steve Jobs' of this world from the rest of us.