Dell’s new foldable PCs are all screens
Dell's entering the foldable and dual screen laptop game with some wild new nextgeneration concepts at CES 2020, which imagine a future where your laptop is made entirely out of screens. Dell has two concepts on display here, each with a different spinon the dual screen device. There's the Concept Ori, like origami, a laptop with a 13 inch foldable screen that can fold down to thesize of a hard cover book. And there's the Concept Duet, which replaces the keyboardon a normal size laptop with a second full size touch screen pad. Now, of the two, the ConceptDuet is the simpler pitch, it's effectively an XPS 13, but the keyboard has been swapped out for a second 13.4 inch fullHD display touchscreen. The two screens can either be used side by side for multitasking, or as a single massive display that content stretches across both panels. For example, you can read an Ebook with each panel displayinga single full page.
It's also a similar idea tothe dual screen Surface Duo that Microsoft announced last year. There's also a keyboard accessory that can be placed down ontop of one of the touchscreens with the rest of thescreen acting as a trackpad for when you wanna do moretraditional laptop work. Alternatively, the twoscreens can flip around to form a single screen tablet device something that Dell highlights as an advantage of thetwo separate displays, as opposed to a single folding one. The end result is somethingthat's a little heavier than a regular laptop, which makes sense given the extra screen, but that's to be expected. The foldable Project Ori isthe more mysterious of the two. Dell wouldn't offer manydetails on any of the specs, except to say that the screenis approximately 13 inches, and that it had QHD Plus resolution. The display looks good though, although as with pretty muchany folding panel right now, the plastic screen just isn'tas nice as a glassed one. It's also not the only foldableWindows laptop in the works.
Lenovo also showed off a similar looking prototype last year too. Both dual screen conceptstake the same idea and bring it in different directions. Ori takes a regular laptop screen and makes the hardware itself smaller. And Duet take that same regular laptop, and makes the screen everything. The two concepts are justthat for now, concepts. But, like Alienware's Concept UFO, which it's also showing off at CES, they're pretty polished hardware, and it's really easy to imagine that these could be real products one day. Additionally, Microsoft is also pushing dual and foldable screenlaptops in a big way, with its upcoming Windows 10X software. Now, Dell hasn't said that these concepts will actually run 10X, but it does mean that there is big backing from the maker of Windows itself, and that there's acustom version of its OS specifically for hardware like this, which could be the difference between these concepts being a cool idea, and the future of computers.
Now, Dell obviously isn'tsaying when to expect either Concept Ori orConcept Duet to hit stores, or even if they're evergonna be sold at all, but they're a fascinating look at the possible future of computers. One that's filled with morescreen space than ever before. If you wanna see moreconcept videos like this, we have a great videothat we just made about Alienware's Concept UFO, and for more great videosjust follow The Verge, we're gonna have stufflike this coming out of CES all week long, and that was too long for an end card. - [Director] No, that was perfect! - Oh, well then I shouldn'thave done that at the end.
It's also a similar idea tothe dual screen Surface Duo that Microsoft announced last year. There's also a keyboard accessory that can be placed down ontop of one of the touchscreens with the rest of thescreen acting as a trackpad for when you wanna do moretraditional laptop work. Alternatively, the twoscreens can flip around to form a single screen tablet device something that Dell highlights as an advantage of thetwo separate displays, as opposed to a single folding one. The end result is somethingthat's a little heavier than a regular laptop, which makes sense given the extra screen, but that's to be expected. The foldable Project Ori isthe more mysterious of the two. Dell wouldn't offer manydetails on any of the specs, except to say that the screenis approximately 13 inches, and that it had QHD Plus resolution. The display looks good though, although as with pretty muchany folding panel right now, the plastic screen just isn'tas nice as a glassed one. It's also not the only foldableWindows laptop in the works.
Lenovo also showed off a similar looking prototype last year too. Both dual screen conceptstake the same idea and bring it in different directions. Ori takes a regular laptop screen and makes the hardware itself smaller. And Duet take that same regular laptop, and makes the screen everything. The two concepts are justthat for now, concepts. But, like Alienware's Concept UFO, which it's also showing off at CES, they're pretty polished hardware, and it's really easy to imagine that these could be real products one day. Additionally, Microsoft is also pushing dual and foldable screenlaptops in a big way, with its upcoming Windows 10X software. Now, Dell hasn't said that these concepts will actually run 10X, but it does mean that there is big backing from the maker of Windows itself, and that there's acustom version of its OS specifically for hardware like this, which could be the difference between these concepts being a cool idea, and the future of computers.
Now, Dell obviously isn'tsaying when to expect either Concept Ori orConcept Duet to hit stores, or even if they're evergonna be sold at all, but they're a fascinating look at the possible future of computers. One that's filled with morescreen space than ever before. If you wanna see moreconcept videos like this, we have a great videothat we just made about Alienware's Concept UFO, and for more great videosjust follow The Verge, we're gonna have stufflike this coming out of CES all week long, and that was too long for an end card. - [Director] No, that was perfect! - Oh, well then I shouldn'thave done that at the end.
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