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While there’s no denying the related portability and productivity convenience of notebook computer hardware, progressively smaller devices and display screens means gradually more cramped desktop space. But what if you could have a notebook with not one, but two usable screens?
gScreen has a wide window on the future of professional notebooks. Image: Gizmodo.
Rather than just being a consumer electronics pipedream, the widespread availability of 'proper' dual-screen notebook portables could be just around the corner thanks to the pioneering work of Alaska-based technology specialist gScreen.
At first glance, gScreen’s ambitious Spacebook computer appears much like any other 15.4-inch notebook. But, unlike more conventional portables, the Spacebook offers a second slide-out display, which significantly improves on-screen workspace for its users.
While the extra screen’s inclusion could heavily impact the Spacebook’s operational longevity (not to mention its weight) with regard to sapping battery performance, gScreen founder Gordon Stewart has intimated that access to the second screen will be strictly optional.
“We designed this [device] knowing that many may not need the extra screen at all times,” he commented in a Gizmodo report, which also suggested the Spacebook could arrive carrying a nine-cell battery to help handle the extra strain.
The Spacebook, the first of its kind to offer same-sized twin screens, is being aimed at professional video editors, photographers and designers that employ multiple application windows and require considerably more screen space while working.
With 13-inch model variants expected in the near future, the gScreen Spacebook line will be powered by the Windows 7 operating system, Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 4GBs of RAM, and NVIDIA's well muscled GF900M GT discrete graphics solution.
Due to hit prominent retail outlets before the close of 2009, the gScreen Spacebook is expected to cost willing computer enthusiasts approximately $3,000 USD.
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