This dual-screen laptop swings horizontally — and quotes the Whole Earth Catalog

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Ever since Razer and promptly , we’ve been by the idea of multiple mobile screens. is the latest attempt to make it a practical reality, with twin 14-inch 1080p displays. Unlike the earlier this year, it’s a twin-screen tablet with a detachable keyboard; this one’s most definitely a with an extra screen on a hinge that swings all the way around.

And unlike , it swings horizontally instead of vertically. The company is calling it the “world’s first horizontally foldable 360 degree laptop.” While we don’t have a price, release date, or full spec sheet yet, it seems this laptop isn’t shooting for gaming or high-end productivity; it’ll be equipped with a two-year-old 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1255U processor (we’re expecting ), 16GB of DDR4 memory, and a 1TB PCIe 3.



0 SSD. It also only supports 5Gbps transfer speeds from its USB-A and USB-C ports and HDMI 2.0 rather than HDMI 2.

1 for its video output. And one of its two USB-C ports is only for charging. Still, there are lots of tasks that don’t necessarily need lots of horsepower but could benefit from more visual real estate — and the second screen isn’t the only unique thing about this machine! The Acemagic X1 also includes, and I quote: I am assuming Acemagic doesn’t realize that Steve Jobs in his 2005 commencement speech, but hey, bonus points for countercultural message written in gold? (No, we don’t have a picture of the gold lettering to see if Steve Jobs’ name is also on the side of this laptop.