It weighs about 6.2 pounds. Battery consumption and the two screens is that Acer has 3 hours of battery life. Worse, it can not be replaced.
Acer Iconia, the first mainstream dual-screen laptops, this week began. The company has not released pricing and availability. About Iconia great, but Acer has completed the second screen. A picture is built into the laptop screen, the other is into the base, usually located above the keyboard. Each screen is 14 inches diagonal, the operation and screen together, like any other top-level screen performance laptop screen, and at the bottom to provide a virtual keyboard to do like the dashboard or special purpose special tasks.
A model, the bottom of the screen as a continuation of top of the screen. For example, a Web page or from the top of the bottom of the screen across the screen from top to bottom of file. This mode automatically depending on the application. Another model has brought an application called social jogger, which makes some activities at the bottom of the screen dashboard social networking sites. Potential to bring things in the top of the screen to open them. Scrapbook of providing a free-form multi-point touch the bottom of the screen where the layout of images. You can edit or to the applications they use top of the screen opens.
The two-screen option will simply give us another tradeoff. I believe that the second screen will prove to be a valuable option for two reasons. First, the screen is worth its weight in gold around the productivity and usefulness. Second, a physical keyboard is extraordinary simple and cheap, plus as an option. When you really need to type, just whip out a Bluetooth keyboard and move forward. Can easily get two screens and a real keyboard. No big deal.
Also, I find it very amazing, after all these years, I still have to defend the on-screen keyboard to acceptance. Just look at recent history. When the iPhone came out, critics say, a small on-screen keyboard is not available. Today is the most popular iPhone smart phone, which also uses Android’s competitive most of the onscreen keyboard.
In the iPad out, critics say they will not cause waves in the Internet market, because people need a physical keyboard. Today, the Internet market is destroyed by touching the tablet PC market, which is dominant in the iPad.
The same thing will happen in the notebook computer. Today, people can not imagine using the on-screen keyboard. But soon, they will be surprisingly popular. The Iconia user interface is a real multi-touch, registration from 10 fingers at the same input. When you set up into a claw and five fingers touch the bottom of the screen and your hand gesture reminiscent of a circular turntable that lets you choose to open a variety of interfaces. Placed in the bottom of the screen to bring the palm of your hand on the screen keyboard.
Acer said they would release a software development kit (SDK) next month to encourage third party development. This form should support Windows 7 and notebook computer manufacturer. The SDK should be Microsoft, the initiative should be Microsoft.
Acer’s done a lot of work. But we really need the PC software industry on this point. Coming from the hardware manufacturer and the leading question is, other firms to embrace the same standards. We need access to computers, rather than a separate set for each supplier in general attitude.
Why Apple will launch a dual screen MacBook. CEO Steve Jobs talked about touch-screen notebook computer, he said: “We have done a test user test, it is not proven does not work”
Steve is right, it is why do Acer Apple has done, and use the touch control interface as a dual screen MacBook notebooks the future bottom of the screen. Apple’s growth trend has been the size of the touchpad, and with the glass surface of them. The next step is to transform into a multi-touch the bottom of the laptop touch pad.
Dual-screen notebook computer into the design of Apple’s main agenda. Apple believes that minimize moving parts, the screen on the touch screen. Acer did not think I would be the first company demonstrated a dual-screen clamshell laptop. And I’m sure they will not be the last. This is the shape of the future, the future is now so close, you can almost touch it.
