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This just seems like the completely wrong form factor for this technology, Like they were just given these screens at a discount and told make it work.

InDubioProRubio 2y ago
Some R & D Titanics become unthinkable to give up, the ship of the damned carrier must arrive at port and fail at sale. "I guess the people were just not ready for it"
wodenokoto 2y ago
I thought it seemed pretty cool. What is the right one?
- chinathrow 2y ago
  Left and right vs. bottom / top?
forgotoldacc 2y ago
Seems fine. People want portability, but modern laptop screens also are not designed with bloated word processors and their unnecessarily large toolbars in mind. Browsers are also often best viewed vertically.
benreesman 2y ago
We’re deep into a cycle in technology where customer/consumer/user/worker preference aren’t even paid lip service anymore: Samsung is so powerful in Korea that demand is what they say it is. Meta is so ubiquitous that icky LLM slop participants will get booked as fractional users via cooked engagement metrics and earnings reports will reflect “growth”. These guys are cosplaying: it’s not commerce when it happening by default is priced in by everyone! A million dollar cover charge to an inauguration? Give me a fucking break.
- benreesman 2y ago
  We’ve managed to combine the dynamism of a lethargic central planning committee with the social welfare of a rapacious frontier anarchy with the costumes and titles of a failed state.
boomskats 2y ago
Hard disagree, from at least an ergonomics perspective. Just because we're not accustomed to seeing it as consumers doesn't make it 'wrong'. For context: I've been carrying a separate keyboard/mouse around alongside my laptop for quite a long time - not because I don't like my thinkpad keyboards, but because it lets me flatten the laptop hinge to 180 degrees and stand the laptop upright, bringing its screen to eye level (something like this pic[0]). It is incredibly comfortable, and for me it's worth the inconvenience. But having a display that would let me bring my primary content up to eye level, without all that faff, and with some gratis screen real-estate for secondary content I can just glance down at, is something I would definitely spend my money on. I'm obviously in the minority here, but the ergonomic implications are universal. Nobody likes that crappy pain you get between your shoulderblades from hunching over your laptop in a cafe for 4 hours. They just put up with it because the _current_ alternatives are too impractical for most. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4khwpt/hotdesking/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4khwpt/hotdesking...
TowerTall 2y ago
I think a laptop is a good form factor for this. I just with the screen would stretch horisontal instead of vertical.

InDubioProRubio 2y ago

Some R & D Titanics become unthinkable to give up, the ship of the damned carrier must arrive at port and fail at sale. "I guess the people were just not ready for it"

wodenokoto 2y ago

I thought it seemed pretty cool. What is the right one?

chinathrow 2y ago
Left and right vs. bottom / top?

forgotoldacc 2y ago

Seems fine. People want portability, but modern laptop screens also are not designed with bloated word processors and their unnecessarily large toolbars in mind. Browsers are also often best viewed vertically.

benreesman 2y ago

We’re deep into a cycle in technology where customer/consumer/user/worker preference aren’t even paid lip service anymore: Samsung is so powerful in Korea that demand is what they say it is. Meta is so ubiquitous that icky LLM slop participants will get booked as fractional users via cooked engagement metrics and earnings reports will reflect “growth”. These guys are cosplaying: it’s not commerce when it happening by default is priced in by everyone! A million dollar cover charge to an inauguration? Give me a fucking break.

benreesman 2y ago
We’ve managed to combine the dynamism of a lethargic central planning committee with the social welfare of a rapacious frontier anarchy with the costumes and titles of a failed state.

boomskats 2y ago

Hard disagree, from at least an ergonomics perspective. Just because we're not accustomed to seeing it as consumers doesn't make it 'wrong'. For context: I've been carrying a separate keyboard/mouse around alongside my laptop for quite a long time - not because I don't like my thinkpad keyboards, but because it lets me flatten the laptop hinge to 180 degrees and stand the laptop upright, bringing its screen to eye level (something like this pic[0]). It is incredibly comfortable, and for me it's worth the inconvenience. But having a display that would let me bring my primary content up to eye level, without all that faff, and with some gratis screen real-estate for secondary content I can just glance down at, is something I would definitely spend my money on. I'm obviously in the minority here, but the ergonomic implications are universal. Nobody likes that crappy pain you get between your shoulderblades from hunching over your laptop in a cafe for 4 hours. They just put up with it because the _current_ alternatives are too impractical for most. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4khwpt/hotdesking/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4khwpt/hotdesking...

TowerTall 2y ago

I think a laptop is a good form factor for this. I just with the screen would stretch horisontal instead of vertical.