Lenovo Makes Rollable OLED Screens a Laptop Reality
Lenovo Makes Rollable OLED Screens a Laptop Reality
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Lenovo Makes Rollable OLED Screens a Laptop Reality
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Bring back the trackpoint you bastards !
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They didn't take the TrackPoint away, did they?!
Edit: They really did... Way to kill a brand guys. I blame every goddamn tech journalist who wanted it gone, fuck you so much.
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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.
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We need track points on handheld PCs. Are they patented?
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RIP nubbin
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It's the thinkpad x9 for anyone that wondered the model.
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And the three buttons!
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Can they make laptops with hinges that don't break?
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To be fair, Lenovo also made the ThinkPad. You could throw those down a flight of stairs and they wouldn't break
Source: I once dropped a thinkpad down a flight of stairs.
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Meh I reckon 75% of that was IBM. I also had an ideapad that would survive literally nothing
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Thank you for reminding me of Thinkpads. I'd like to track down a used or refurbished one for home use to survive kiddos
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They can, my x230's hinges are still good
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I've had two Thinkpads ~15 years and neither had hinges break. The first died due to water damage (the water protection can only do so much), and the second has been with me for almost 7 years now. Both were carried around in backpacks, dropped a few times (current one has a chip from falling off the counter onto a hard floor too many times), and the current one has been abused by young children (slamming the lid, standing on it, etc).
If you're buying a Lenovo laptop that's not a Thinkpad, I don't know what to tell you, that's on you.
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They’re completely out of ideas.
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I'd be happy with a gaming laptop that doesn't have hinges that break.
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Lenovo might turn your hinge into a screen but giving you a hinge that works is to complicated.
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I have a better idea: a laptop screen that is legible on a sunny day
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so eink pretty much though the refresh rate is shit
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Funny you should say that because Lenovo made a laptop with an e-ink screen (as graciously linked by someone else in this thread) about a year ago. But it never came to my market, and I suspect this rollable one won't either. I don't think they're serious about selling any of these, it's just marketing gimmicks.
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Short rolling demo from the article https://youtube.com/watch?v=ibpaLkvBXQY
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Oh wow, the wrinkles would drive me nuts.
Also, why extend it vertically?
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Lmao they really put a coffee cup alongside it, as if unrolling your laptop display like this at a Starbucks would be perfectly normal
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Lenovo is really good at turning the coolest technology into absolutely useless laptops.
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Why?
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Bigger screen without bigger form factor?
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Why not?
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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.
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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
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They can be silent too, so not even that problem.
Also where I sometimes go with a laptop, nobody will hear the click-clacking.
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Not to mention it would weigh about 2kg more than a normal laptop due to the steel plates.
I totally wouldn't mind that. My daily driver keyboard is an XT Model F lmao
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Bring back the unfolding keyboard (and the gummy trackpoint). 😂
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Looking forward to the HTC Torah
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Maybe get that patent sorted out quickly?
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I would but I don't even know where to start. I don't know how to use CAD software and I can't draw for shit. Even if I could, what next? I have no networking skills.
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How does that work on the software side? I guess you can only slide it out fully, will that part be black while it comes up and then your display automatically changes resolution?
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Adaptive screen resolution? Maybe like how phones can auto rotate the image? But less annoying hopefully. Sounds like a future feature if this type of thing takes off.
Edit: Whatching the demo in the article, it looks like they're adding a screen when it's extended. Like having another monitor.
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There's a video in the article showing it working
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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!
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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.
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Same. I love vertical real estate
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imagine making a laptop case for that
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It's just a 14" laptop.
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I have a 15.6" laptop, but I had to reinstall the foreskin, so I'm down to 14" now.. ☹️
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Like a phone case that fits onto it or just a carry bag?
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Seems like a cool idea, but those screens aren't really ready for this type of prime time.
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Foldable phone screens have been around for 5 years, flexible screens longer than that. The tech has been around and ready there's just not heavy adoption yet.
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It's been around, and is ready for some implementations, but it's not ready for prime time, and, IMO, a $3400 laptop is prime time.
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It seems ideal for wristwear.
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Imagine pulling up to the
car meetLAN party with this -
What the fuck do you even do on a tall scree... Oh its basically a portable vertical monitor
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How expensive is it anyway isn't it just better to get a second monitor if you have to?
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I use dual monitors one on top of each other. If I had this I would simply stack 2 windows.
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i get this is a first gen but wow that looks awful. so many wrinkles. not mature enough to be revealed yet imo.
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This is actually not the first year it's been demoed. Last year it was just a proof of concept. It will take time to work the bugs out.
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I mean they are actually selling it now, there shouldn't be bugs like that making it to consumers.
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Eventually we'll get digital newspapers. This is one of the steps to that.
It's a pretty awkward growth so far though.
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It could have been so simple: the display on a roll with a spring and a sensor to keep track and rescale the resolution accordingly. You pull at the top to extend the display to x2 and more and be done. Maybe add a scissor at the back to keep the foil without wrinkles. It would have been old-Lenovo-style sturdy instead of the plaything with a motor that breaks after 2 years.
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Zenbook Duo is much simpler and actually seems effective.
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I mean, that demo model looks like a hot mess of ripples and artefacts from this angle.
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Can you make it more ugly and prone to mechanical failure for no gain.
slaps screen
More like:
Slaps Screen:
Screen flashes in colors only a Mantis Shrimp can see before folding in half and going black...
A lot of current laptop designs are leaving free space around the battery so more AI can be poured in at a later date, through a dedicated nipple presumably.
And more expensive while you're at it, thanks.
Best we can do is never actually release it.
Put your pre-order in now!
I wouldn't say no gain. I would love that real estate on my bedside stand I use with physical disability. I would not want the sub 17" form factor and keyboard though. I struggle to do anything super technical without a second screen which is a pain in the ass. I can't sit at a desktop and the ergonomics of a laptop are unbeatable in my situation.
It looks like when it's extended it adds a second screen. But it's vertical, one on top of the other. I feel like doing it horizontally would be more natural to use. Baby steps, I guess.
The fuck would you even do with a taller screen?
If you are a developer, writing code, the taller screen helps.
Taller porn..
Just a huge portrait screen to to doom scroll through Facebook reels and instagram stories probably
Two or more windows on top of each other. Have you never even put a monitor on its side to get more vertical space?
As a Dev that needs some communication with a team, documentation and potentially a video for entertainment whilst working. Monitors that are taller are great. The LG dual up is my holy grail right now.
Just treat like side by side screens, so browser and code.
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.
I had thought when I posted that to put 'no justifiable gain' but did not for some reason, maybe it ruined the flow but with hindsight and as you and others have explained perhaps it should be there.
I have a lenovo external usb-c monitor.
I love it. Use it every day. It's great.
I'd never buy this rolling screen gimmick.
Oh there'll be gain. But not for the user.
Yeah I can, add a hinge and swivel so it can go widescreen too