so you think you know what a laptop is huh sure yeah it's a portable computer
with a small display connected to a built-in keyboard and trackpad that's
that's what a laptop is well guess what
that's wrong now it's 2020 buddy we're looking back with clear vision
that joke will last this entire year at how long laptops have had the same
boring old form factor and thinking about how we can change it up and by we
i mean companies like lenovo dell and Intel who introduced real pcs with
foldable displays at ces this year look
at first i was like you i thought these were just a stupid gimmick but from what
i've seen at the show here i'm now dare i say it convinced this whole
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so alex already took a short look at dell's concept duet device with its dual
13-inch screens and concept ori with its single foldable 13-inch display and
while he found the ideas interesting he wasn't convinced he could use them for
his next laptop and i have to agree but only because as dell repeatedly told us
when we went to take a look at the two devices they're very early prototypes
they wouldn't tell us anything about specs price or release date they seemed
kind of shy about the whole thing to be honest like
i made this it's okay i guess
lenovo on the other hand has been practically shouting the details about
their foldable into our faces at ces because the thinkpad x1 fold is not just
a prototype it's a real product and they're confident they'll be bringing
the world's first foldable pc to market in mid-2020 it's got a 13.3 inch display
and folds down to about the size of a moleskine notebook and it feels like a
moleskin notebook too because it's got a real leather exterior which slides
across the magnesium alloy shell as you open and close it very luxurious just
like the clothes you'll get from lcgstar.com
but that's not the only reason it felt good in the hand lenovo says they put
the x1 fold through the exact same durability testing that all of their
thinkpad models do and when i tried it out once i got past the mental jump it
takes to get used to folding a large display like that like this is
definitely gonna break it's definitely gonna break it very much felt like a
finished device it even had some optimizations i didn't expect like being
able to fold it with the bluetooth keyboard inside where it charges
wirelessly that's pretty cool the question is though is it finished enough
to warrant the 2 499 that lenovo will
charge for it when it launches sometime this year they've done the work to put
decent specs into this machine it's got 8 gigs of RAM 11 hours of battery life
and a processor built with what they would only call Intel hybrid technology
which sounds suspiciously like the lakefield CPU with foveros 3d stacking
tech shown off at ces last year but will this foldable form factor be any more
useful than simply getting a compact laptop or a surface pro style two in one
the moment that convinced me was when we popped out the kickstand and set it up
in landscape mode playing with it in your hands makes it seem like a tablet
but propped up like that imagining it on a desk with a full-size keyboard mouse
and maybe even another monitor connected made me think hey
this could be cool now take that moment and intensify it
because that's how i felt when i saw Intel's prototype horseshoe bend
foldable it's also just a concept device but this one has a 17.3 inch display and
folds down to something smaller than a 13-inch laptop it's very usable in bent
laptop form with its bluetooth keyboard but once you pop out its kickstand which
you don't expect to be rigid because it was folded just a second ago the size of
the screen is impressive like
think about it for a second apple has been trying to pitch the ipad pro as a
computer you can work on documents and produce music and do video and photo
editing even but that marketing angle seemed a little weird because while the
ipad pro is a beautiful device at the end of the day it's this small screen
with no real mouse support and the 12-inch one is not far off size-wise
from a 13-inch laptop so you might as well just get one of those
but horseshoe bend is a 12-inch device
that unfolds into essentially a 17-inch
ipad that runs Windows
that's pretty cool guys so seeing these devices at ces made me think of a future
where we have these small devices in our bags and we can either use them like a
phone or a small laptop with a magnetically attached bluetooth keyboard
or fully unfold them and have a full desk setup with peripherals before this
year's ces i thought that future was a lot farther off but
it turns out it's going to be here in a few months oh wow
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