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The device would have a rollable keyboard for excellent portability.
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The device would have a rollable keyboard for excellent portability.
note the curve on the screen that is needed to get it to be stable. No thanks!
Presumably a bi-stable lamination able to roll flat but self-stiffens into a curved form. I used to know someone who did their masters research into those at uni back in the day.
It's a very slight curve. People (for the most part) have no problems reading books, newspapers, maps and other things with greater curvature...
If you do a lot of linear CAD it messes with you. I don't have astigmatism and I don't want to develop it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
Do most users of small, portable computing devices do a lot of linear CAD on them?Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
Looking around at all the coffee-shop novelists, I'mma guess not.....
Looks crap for image editing too - all you are doing is saving a few mm off having a lid with the screen already in it. Plus,the design exposes the keyboard due to a lack of a lid,so would need a solid case to stop needless button pushes. Looks like an answer looking for a problem. Great for posers! ;)
Fairly sure that neither CAD nor video editing are in the list of proposed use cases for this gear!
I have my XPS13 and my colleague has their surface pro and we are (well were) regularly in coffee shops/around meeting tables loading up drawings and chatting through designs etc. Make something portable and people will want to use it accordingly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
OK, I stand corrected, then. Clearly everyone uses CAD on laptops apart from me!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
TBF,its also fairly annoying many of these premium business laptops don't have AMD options too! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
Could have been inspired by the toilet paper roll.
Never let it be said Tasky only sees things in polar extremes and nothing in between.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
I see most things in shades of black and green, actually...Quote:
Originally Posted by ik9000
Doesn't change the fact that most people using a laptop won't be CAD designers, and the screen curvature will have even less of an impact than that of a newspaper or a curved phone display.