Expanding display rolls out with the touch of a button
      • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
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        3 months 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.

        • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          3 months 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
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            3 months 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.

          • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
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            3 months ago

            The built-in cameras use cases are video conferences, so they use the “afterthought” cameras (cheapest they can). I understand your use case, and I agree that the camera quality is shite, never mind the MP count. My 2005 phone shouldn’t have had a camera better than my 2024 laptop. Period.

  • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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?

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I use dual monitors one on top of each other. If I had this I would simply stack 2 windows.

    • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I have a monitor on a custom made arm that sits above my laptop when I need a second screen.

          It works well in a tight space like in a board meeting at a conference table or plane seat. Vertical doesn’t make a real difference in my experience. You just need two spaces that do not move so that you can quickly reference multiple documents and keep your place between them.

          • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Good point. I was thinking of best use case, but really whatever works will do.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 months 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
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          3 months 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
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            3 months 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
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              3 months 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
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                3 months 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
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                  3 months 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.

      • seven_phone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.

          • seven_phone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I do think it is a bit gimmicky and the problem it seeks to address could be more practically solved in other more conventional ways, but it is an attempt and a first iteration and has merit for that and who knows where it will end up, maybe all our screens will expand and contract like the windows within them one day.

      • seven_phone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.

      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        3 months ago

        More like:

        Slaps Screen:

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

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Just a huge portrait screen to to doom scroll through Facebook reels and instagram stories probably

        • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          My three monitor set up is two landscape monitors on the sides of one glorious portrait monitor for my code.

    • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’d be happy with a gaming laptop that doesn’t have hinges that break.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Lenovo might turn your hinge into a screen but giving you a hinge that works is to complicated.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Eventually we’ll get digital newspapers. This is one of the steps to that.

    It’s a pretty awkward growth so far though.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Lenovo is really good at turning the coolest technology into absolutely useless laptops.

    • Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • Amon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Meh I reckon 75% of that was IBM. I also had an ideapad that would survive literally nothing

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months 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
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      3 months 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 of on the bottom but you can make the main thing your working on biggest than what it would be on a standard 16:9/10 monitor which is great.

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Was wondering when someone would finally do it. Rollable phones next, please?

    Ever since the first foldable screens were announced in the 2010s, I’ve had this idea for a cylindrical tube-shaped phone. Tube contains the battery, cameras, buttons, and ports. Pull on a tab and the screen rolls out. Pull a little more, and now the screen is tablet-sized. Like unraveling a roll of film. I could see this design replacing foldables.

    The only part I haven’t figured out yet is how to make the screen rigid enough for use. Maybe using some sort of chain-link latching system?