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Posted by Steven Bink February 12, 2005 9:25 PM with 2 comment(s)
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Paul Thurrott: Few reports this week touting a VSLive! presentation during which a Microsoft executive showed off secondary displays for upcoming Longhorn-based laptops that are based on the company's Smart Personal Object Technology (SPOT). Although these displays, which sit on the outside of a laptop shell, are a cool idea, they're not new. In fact, Microsoft first showed them publicly almost a year ago at Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2004. And as you might expect, there were posted pictures on the SuperSite for Windows at that time. like this:



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Spy said:

I just don't see much of a need for this in a laptop.  Not until laptops can boot up a lot faster than they do now days. 

Personally I am not into the convergance thing.  I want my laptop to be a good laptop, my phone to be a good phone and my PDA to do it's thing well too.  This idea kind of turns a laptop into a PDA of sorts.

You see this on flip-phones now days. 

I don't know...I guess at the end of the day the idea wouldn't sell me a laptop.
February 12, 2005 9:00 PM
 

Steven Bink said:

That is the point, the laptop doesnt need to boot up!

"This handy feature gives the user quick access to personal information management (PIM) information, time, battery life, multimedia functionality like DVD and music playback, and other useful features while a laptop is closed and/or off."

 

 

February 13, 2005 5:27 AM

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