Acer Dual Screen Laptop Priced at €1500 in Spain
Not too long ago we were introduced to Acer's Iconia notebook. At a special event in NYC the company proudly showed off the dual-screen tablet, but refused to give away too many details about price or availability.
Of course, looking at a device that packs two 14-inch multitouch displays and a Core i5 CPU, you know it's going to be expensive. However, considering there isn't really anything like the Iconia already available, it was a case of 'your guess is as good as ours' when it came to estimating a price tag for the Iconia.
Thanks to a spokesperson from Acer Spain, we know a little more about how much the company is going to be charging for the device. The Iconia will supposedly hit Spanish retailers on January 28 with a €1,499 ($1,984 at time of writing) price tag.
Of course, it's unlikely that Acer will charge U.S. customers the equivalent amount in dollars (it's also likely UK customers will get robbed), but we wouldn't be surprised if the company just swapped out the euro sign for a dollar sign for the North American market and charged us $1,499 here too. Time will tell, I guess.
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I just can't wrap it around my head what the practical use of this will be.
A desktop I can understand some of us actually need multiple monitors.
But what Acer seems to be doing with this laptop is simply trying to be pointlessly different to make appeal to the product.
Looks awesome but I wonder if it has tactile or haptic feedback when you press the keys?
what if you get upset and slightly hit your "keyboard".... would it shatter?
Hmmm... preparing for future users by allowing for a swype-styled keyboard perhaps? I guess as long as you can program a custom interface, this could be cool. I would love not to have to memorize hot keys but instead place custom icons there instead, just like they did with cash registers at the fast food places.
Awesome but Impractical on my opinion
The concept is awesome but the price tag and its use is impractical
IT's cool to read webpages with two screens but a simple scroll up/down can match it.
Although, it misses a stylus pen
Two things:
1. My house is full of code monkey's so I am sure they wouldn't approve. (lack of tacktile feed back);
2. It's Acer
what if you get upset and slightly hit your "keyboard".... would it shatter?
I sure hope they thought about this, I have banged on my keyboard many times cause of frustration at certain games. It could turn out real bad if this keyboard would easily shatter cause of something like that.
I think the main benefit is you get to have a digital keyboard that lacks tactile feedback so not only do you type slower, you now have a fragile typing surface that uses a ton of power and will soon be filled with finger prints and smudges.
I think is awesome some. I'd like to find some way to get one and see the specs, drive, ram and etc. Non-wireless would be nice.
Hmmm... preparing for future users by allowing for a swype-styled keyboard perhaps? I guess as long as you can program a custom interface, this could be cool. I would love not to have to memorize hot keys but instead place custom icons there instead, just like they did with cash registers at the fast food places.
Yes,that reminds me of the ikeyinfinity keyboard idea.A great concept no more memorizing hot keys,keyboard overlays for games,sims etc.
I think they are awesome. Knowing what the specs would be would probably be good, like drive, and rom. Non-wireless would be nice.
I think they are awesome. Knowing what the specs would be would probably be good, like drive, and rom. Non-wireless would be nice.
I agree with the first two sentences, but non-wireless would be nice? For a new, premium product like this one, I'd be shocked and disappointed if it didn't have wireless-N and Bluetooth built in!
expensive
Two things:1. My house is full of code monkey's so I am sure they wouldn't approve. (lack of tacktile feed back);2. It's Acer
what is a code monkey? maybe a wannabe hacker?
Hmmm ... throw ubuntu 10.10 on it or even 11.04( when it comes out ) with the multi-gesture. hmmmm .. ardour with the mixer on the bottom screen ? hmmmm .. Yup I can think of a lot of possibilities with that tablet.
expensive but acer is no doubt is a good product.
Interesting one, at least, is cheaper than Mac products...
About 2 years ago, the One Laptop Per Child group showed a concept dual-screen notebook that does this.... the screens were like 9~10" and was designed to help prevent dirt and liquids from getting inside the notebook.
Typing on a pure GUI keyboard? Its already annoying that i make a lot of typos on my touch screen phone as so i am used to touch typing. That will be more annoying that you have to look at every key you press just to make sure you dont hit the wrong "keys".
I just can't wrap it around my head what the practical use of this will be...
An e-reader you hold just like a book?
Unless you can fully customize how the keyboard is laid out (i.e. move around wasd keys if you're gaming), or flip it on it's side to view two or more documents at once while still having the keys at the bottom, I don't really see anything good coming from this other than an expensive show piece.
Cool idea, but not practical. You can get TouchSmart systems for cheaper than that with a larger screen, aimed for multimedia and graphic buffs.
Steep pricing......
what is a code monkey? maybe a wannabe hacker?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Monkeys
I can see this benefitting DJ's and DJ software