The Core i7 Laptop With Dual 17'' 1080P LCDs
The more the merrier.
Nearly two years ago, we learned about a laptop concept that had two full-sized screens. At the time, it was spec'ed with two 15.4-inch screens, but now gScreen is nearly ready for rollout and has cranked it up to two full 1080P 17-inch screens.
gScreen calls it the SpaceBook, and it features Core i7 and i5 processors – up from the original's Core 2 Duo model two years ago. The dual-screened laptop is meant for professionals with special requirements, so it's great that the screens come in both a matte and glossy option.
The Windows Team Blog has a post on this machine, and in it is a quote from Gordon Stewart, GScreenCorp’s CEO and the father of the SpaceBook, on how such a laptop came to be: “A few years ago I was working on a film project in Hawai’i and realized that I was going to have to move my entire desktop setup down there from my home in Anchorage to get the computing power and screen real-estate I needed. That hassle made me realize that I couldn’t be the only one who needed a powerful laptop with massive screen size, so I set out to build one.”
The Core i5 model starts at $2395 and the Core i7 model is $2795. Check it all out here.
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warmon6 if it wasn't for the fact that there a GTS 250M gpu inside of it instead of something a little more modern, i would take it.Reply -
burnley14 Definitely a niche machine. Most people will see no true benefit to having this extra screen space on the go, especially for the high price.Reply -
techseven This is great for programming/debugging and also working in graphic design on the go...Reply -
3ddraft As a CAD tech / project manager, this would be great for client presentations or onsite work. I agree that no really massive work could be done but site sketches, or the nuts and bolts presentations would be easier.Reply -
mauller07 This would be really handy for those times when you need to remote into a server (or 2) while doing work on the laptop locally.Reply -
This is not a laptop, this a mobile workstation: arguing about battery duration is pointless.Reply
But true enough, while the included GPU is enough for most uses, it would have been nice to have the opportunity to get a bigger one, for video rendering & so on.
Same goes for HDD: no SSD for such an high end machine? Really? A combo SSD + HDD would have been sweet.