Expanding display rolls out with the touch of a button
      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        More like:

        Slaps Screen:

        Screen flashes in colors only a Mantis Shrimp can see before folding in half and going black…

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      0·
      15 days ago

      The no gain part I’ll argue against. Having two browser windows open and getting to see both would be really nice a ton of times. Or one browser and a document/pdf whatever.

      Like having a Netflix show running up top while doing work on the bottom half. Or writing a paper while having reference material open and visible. Or simply just reading an article without having to scroll as often.

      Usage wise, a tall screen would have tons of usage. I just wouldn’t pay an extra $2,000+ for the privilage of it. I’d definitely pay like an extra 20% or so to have it, though.

        • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          0·
          14 days ago

          I’d never want to carry around a 2nd monitor or find a place to set it when using a "lap"top. A 2nd monitor is great for a desktop.

          • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            0·
            13 days ago

            That’s fine, you do you and all that.

            The thing is, laptops haven’t been "lap"tops for many years. Many workplaces have infrastructure where you carry your laptop around and dock it into your desktop monitors & peripherals at your desk.

            I personally really like to work at our public library. In my backpack I have the laptop, monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It’s a really great set up and I can be just as productive as I am in my home office.

            • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              1·
              13 days ago

              No. Laptops are still laptops. You’re just choosing not to use them as such. In fact, they’re more lap friendly now than they originally were. With how you describe using yours, you should just have a mini pc instead of a laptop.

              • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                11·
                13 days ago

                Sure. How silly of pretty much every office in the world to issue employees with laptops instead of mini PC’s.

                Walk in to a library or Cafe anywhere in the world and you’ll see laptops, on desks and not on laps.

                • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                  1·
                  13 days ago

                  Yeah, and how many libraries you see with laptops on em and people with second monitors attached that people also carry? People put them on desks at libraries because libraries provide large desks. That doesn’t give you an extra amount of monitor.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        15 days ago

        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.

        • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          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 a fancy design.

          • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            15 days ago

            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.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    15 days ago

    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!

    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      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 or on the bottom but you can make the main thing your working on bigger than what it would be on a standard 16:9/10 monitor which is great.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    15 days ago

    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.

    • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      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

      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
        0·
        15 days ago

        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.

        • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          13 days ago

          Because everyone has to throw up having to watch crap video stream of my face, well, I am sure it is the resolution’s fault. 🌚

        • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          15 days ago

          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.

          • 0ops@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            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.