• Dojan
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    9811 months ago

    Aren’t laptops already foldable?

  • @[email protected]
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    3711 months ago

    I’m having trouble conceptualizing what this would look like. Is it a giant monitor that can also be a laptop? Aren’t all laptops/notebooks by definition foldable anyway?

    • HousePanther
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      1811 months ago

      I’m having the same trouble. Also, I really don’t get the whole craze with folding devices. To me, it just seems like one more (expensive) point of failure on an already fragile device. Or maybe I am just old - So get off my lawn! 😆

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        I wouldn’t mind a foldable phone once they get the kinks sorted out and the price comes down a bit.

        • Aggy
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          411 months ago

          Linux on the WAM show recently talked about how much he loved his foldable phone. I’d love to try one out myself but I’m with you on price. $1800 for a phone is way too much. That’s a months rent for something I’d be terrified to drop or get stolen

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          Except Apple will just make it even more expensive than now, starting it all over again.

          And I say that as an Apple user.

    • @[email protected]
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      611 months ago

      i think the keyboard/touchpad/armrest side would be all screen. if they include lidar then it could do goggle-less 3D spatial computing. harsher to type on though.

      • @[email protected]
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        611 months ago

        Sounds like an awesome portable big ass screen/computer, with a shitty laptop mode built-in

        • @[email protected]
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          211 months ago

          maybe they have some new tech to make a screen feel like a keyboard… and maybe some killer apps would justify it. Media creation/editing software might be better without a keyboard and double workspace.

  • @[email protected]
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    611 months ago

    I have an old 2011 17” MBP (that still works great) and a new 15” MacBook Air. The 15” is a lot smaller than the 17”. A 20” with todays thin bezels would probably be close in size to that old 17”.

  • @prwnr
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    311 months ago

    but why? 20 inch is no longer a mobile device imo, what laptop should be. am I wrong?

    • DudeBoy
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      1511 months ago

      It’s portable if it folds away into a 10" device

    • fearout
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      211 months ago

      As someone who works in design, it’s something I’ve been hoping for for years. Still a bit salty about them discontinuing 17”.