There is a 7-inch pill within the palm remainder of this new 15-inch laptop computer

Multi-screen laptops are a factor, and have been a factor for some time. I vividly keep in mind the ThinkPad W700DS, which had a pull-out, secondary display screen years earlier than individuals began packing USB displays of their luggage. However what a couple of laptop computer with a secondary touchscreen, in a handy place, and rather a lot smaller than any related design I’ve seen?

The SZBox DSX156 makes use of a regular 15.6-inch 1080p display screen up high, plus a 7-inch touchscreen to the left of the keyboard on the underside. Once more, this isn’t a brand new thought—we’ve seen the secondary touchscreen on a few laptops, like considered one of Lenovo’s ThinkBook offshoots or the Asus Zephyrus Duo. However each of these are pretty beefy designs, a lot nearer to a “workstation” than a regular laptop computer. This one crams the secondary performance right into a laptop computer that’s shockingly normal-sized and simply 1.6 kilograms (3.53 kilos), and I can see how touch-friendly apps on the secondary display screen would make sense.

Sadly, I don’t suppose I’ll be checking it out. There are a number of purple flags for this design, which Liliputing says is now on its second revision. One, the scale don’t make sense. A full-sized ANSI keyboard is about 11 inches broad, whereas a 15.6-inch 1080p display screen is 13.6 inches broad. Based mostly on these dimensions and the 7-inch 1280×800 touchscreen (5.6 inches broad with out including within the bezel), and accounting for the 357mm/14-inch complete width, it looks like the keyboard on the DSX156 have to be very squished, like one thing sized for a small pill. (Because of this the ThinkBook that had a roughly related structure was over 17 inches on the first display screen.)

Based mostly on the specs listed at AliExpress, it’s additionally fairly gentle on energy, with an Intel N100 processor and a single slot for DDR4 RAM that I wouldn’t belief to deal with that secondary touchscreen concurrently Home windows 11. A 5,400mAh battery is tiny for any laptop computer, not to mention for one with two screens—that’s the dimensions of a telephone battery—so I feel it is perhaps a typo. (Possibly 54 watt-hours?) A minimum of it’s inexpensive, exhibiting as $425.12 on the time of this writing… however that’s with out RAM, storage, or an working system.

Nonetheless, the truth that this exists appears to point that we will match greater secondary screens in smaller laptops, if not with out compromise. I feel it’s price investigating for those who occur to be a laptop computer maker in search of methods to make a brand new mannequin stand out from the group.