Laptops with detachable screens for e-reading?
“Inside the screen would be a Tegra chip that enables the screen itself to get access to the Internet and process data. So you could buy a laptop and get an e-reader of sorts as well.” – New York Times.
The TeleRead take: OK, we know about convertible laptop-tablet combos like the OLPC machine shown in the photo. But could a detachable screen be a better approach?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:59 am
It would certainly make for a lighter tablet.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:27 am
only with e-ink or similar display. It’s not the bulkiness or the portability of the laptop that’s a problem. It’s the effect of the display on the eye for long sustained reading.
June 1st, 2009 at 12:30 pm
No, an ultra slim double screen. You can use one screen as a touch screen keyboard for extensive writing, but other wise you have a large screen in a small laptop.
June 1st, 2009 at 2:02 pm
There is at least one already out there, Always Innovating’s Touchbook (http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/faqs.htm), which I have for weeks been debating buying. Think I probably will this week.
The $$ wasted on the Cybook or EBW 1500, which I’ve not used for over a year, I keep waiting knowing there will never be a perfect reader. Still trudging along w/my Nokia 770, so backlighting is not a negative for me.
Although…the Pixel Qi technology? Apple’s anticipated June 8 announcement of an e-reader device?