Foldable technology is the worst meme of the decade

U mean a surface pro?

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2in1s are much more reasonable when you really want a laptop/tablet combo. The main reason why you want a laptop instead of just a tablet is the keyboard, why the fuck would you abandon it?

Useless

yoga

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Foldable is literally the future. Laptops and tablets from the future will look like mousepads

I agree with you on phones. I think something like the folding phones (obviously technically refined) fits what they are used for the most. I can't see people writing on shitty onscreen keyboards though

notch is worse

I'm more impressed with laptops that have fast refresh rates, more than one nvme storage slot and up to 64GB of ram, cpu's with 6-cores, and gpu's that are less like their mobile predecessor and more like their desktop counterpart. And batteries are getting bigger, with 80-94WHr and all while maintaining a thin and even non-gamery looking outershell.
And now it get's even more retarded with 240hz display's coming out.

>touchscreen instead of keyboard
dropped

>8 years later, blogs have, "top ten worst tech blunders of the past 10 years!"

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I remember cringing when the monitor of some laptops would turn and shit. Also the touch screens on laptops. This shit is beyond that.

>world's first foldable pc
ITS CALLED A FUCKING LAPTOP

Ever noticed how all the science fiction stuff is actually disappointing when it comes real?
Futurists predicted videophones for decades, thought it would be big, how everyone would be using them. And now we have it and the most time it's only used for shows because Skype and software alike is garbage. More than that, people prefer chats over voice calls.
Same goes with foldable tech, in concepts looked cool, but in reality it looks cheap as fuck.
I think same would happen with flying cars, too. It would be such a garbage people would regret they dreamt of that in the first place.

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LMAO WTF WHAT WERE THEY THINKING ABOUT

Yogabook was a mistake

>be lenovo
>make fuckhuge bezels in laptops
>instead of eliminating them announce fouldable shit
Are they retarded?

Worse than VR?

What are some actual use cases for this pointless gimmick?

Ever saw VR porn? It's a God's gift.

no one in their right mind would ever want a flying car, unless he wants to piss his neighbours.

It makes sense for a phone to go larger into a tablet, but why in the fuck would you want a laptop to fold? Surface is basically the perfect design already, physical keyboard is a must if you actually want to be productive.

imagine buying fad shit

Or how about we don't introduce any more mechanical points of failure on already fragile devices.

>something that keeps you enslaved to a distraction that accomplishes and builds nothing for you personally is "god's gift".

Based

This would be decent as a competitor to stuff like the iPad, but it shouldn't be a full Windows PC. Anyone who really needs full Win32 Windows probably also really needs a keyboard, this will give them no benefits over a traditional laptop.

If it used some sort of modern-only version of Windows (like the Windows Lite Core OS Centaurus- thing that has been leaked) then UWP probably have the capability to provide different touch interfaces based on context (think MacBook Pro touch bar) which would probably be worth the worse usability when compared to a keyboard, especially if all a keyboard will be used for is web-browsing and writing short reports.

Full Win32 Windows will likely be used for things like Adobe CC, Visual Studio and heavy MS Office usage where a mouse and keyboard are indispensable (And likely none of the Win32 apps will be updated to provide contextual touch inputs anyway). Therefore Professionals and prosumers will gain nothing from a folding tablet, even if the touch keyboard is offloaded onto its own screen space ergo it doesn't need full-fat Windows.

This will never be a device for professionals, give it a stripped out and lightweight version of Windows and run it on ARM. Being lighter, having a better battery life and keeping the device as small as possible (maybe folding out to 10 inches) is more important than backwards compatibility with applications no one would want to use on it.

>imagine buying fad shit
you forget that the iphone and "smartphones" were a fad initially too. I'd like to try the folding Samsung phone if it wasn't $3,000 or whatever it is now.

Smart phones are a still a fad and it will end in your life time, kid.

Plus, more people just text than talk.

>flying cars
We've had that for decades. They are called, "helicopters." Even the one in your image is a type of helicopter.

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So people will go back to feature phones?

Tech changes so much and marketing leads people by the nose. There's always some company trying to make a new fad and break into a big new market. In 50 years we might have smart shoes again or something equally retarded.

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>Smart phones are a still a fad
Great point. an industry that has made easily a trillion dollars over the last decade is a "fad."

it's not a meme, they're just doing it wrong.
who the fuck WANTS to type on a screen keyboard? no one.
it's relatively new tech, so they're still feeling out the market.

You didn't really answer the question. Just because new fads will no doubt come along, maybe one even replacing smartphones, how does that make the smartphone, a device 99% of people in the first world own and can't live without a fad?

For smartphones to have been a fad, it will have meant people will abandon their smartphones to return to an earlier technology.

You do know why "heli" stand in "helicopter" in the first place, right? RIGHT?

>Judging shit by 1st gen
What you plebs fail to understand is that the innovators and scifi tech designers are so far ahead of the curve that you can't even imagine their goals.
>VR
I've tried Vive, all we're missing is high bandwidth, low latency wireless data transmission (5G), and more consumer grade device computational power, both are bound to happen. The reason it still hasn't broken through is the guys who came up with the idea were literally over half a century ahead of their time.
>video calls
Videoconferences are used ALL THE TIME in business.
>flying cars
Still waiting for that antigravitation and antidrag/vortex tech. Until we can zip through the air like the UFOs that aren't affected by drag or gravitation, it's not happening. Again, WAY WAY WAY ahead of the curve.

>A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward, and laterally.

Which is what all quadcopters are. "Heli" means "helix, spiral, whirl, convolution." Meaning something that spins, in this case for the purpose of creating lift. Just like what & both use.

A fad is something that comes and goes. Even if 100% of people use something, if its use comes and goes then it is just a fad. People tend to hop from fad to fad. Yes, that also includes reversing to a previous fad. Like how hipsters will use tech from before their birthdate, but that is not a limitation and new fads can easily replace current ones which have no connection to the past.

>you can't even imagine their goals.

That's easy. It is for making the most money. Planned obsolescence and riding a fad wave.

>A fad is something that comes and goes without a replacement*
If something gets replaced by something that really is superior, then that's the progression of technology. If something gets hyped to be revolutionary but then turns out to not replace whatever it was intended to, then it's a fad. But smartphones were superior to feature phones and they also have in fact replaced a PC for some users, this means that the smartphone wasn't a fad but a legitimate progression of consumer electronics.

An example of a fad was the electric shaver, it was "THE" gadget to have when they came out. They were "convenient, safe, easy to use and revolutionary", but they just couldn't provide the close shave most people were bothering to shave for and left a lot of stubble, so people went back to safety razors.

By the logic you're using, every piece of technology that has ever been replaced was a fad, it would mean the wheel was just a fad if it ever gets replaced by some kind of new hover shit.

Technology does come and go, but usually that's down to the progression of technology making its predecessors redundant. You're not clever for understanding that smartphones won't be around forever and it doesn't make you cool to try and act nihilistic about it on the internet, kid.

>If something gets replaced by something that really is superior, then that's the progression of technology

You do realize we've had laptops and netbooks before smartphones right? Tech went backwards for smartphones.

You do realize that we've had Merkur safety razors before electric shavers right? Tech went backwards for electric shavers.

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>Using a laptop's keyboard
Must be nice having such low standards.

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>Implying the netbook wasn't a fad that was BTFO by smartphones
The netbook was a fad because they were sold on the basis of "Oh wow look how small and cheap they are!" but they didn't end up replacing fullsized laptops for consumers because netbooks were worse in every way to consumer laptops, especially usability.

Thanks Merkur shill, but you're missing the point. Electric shavers were supposed to be the future, but they turned out not to be. Therefore they were a fad.

>That filename
Jesus Christ, you actually took that picture? Why did you even bother getting a ThinkPad? If you're working for so long in one place that lugging around a mechanical keyboard seems worth it, why are you using a laptop at all?

>If you're working for so long in one place that lugging around a mechanical keyboard seems worth it, why are you using a laptop at all?
I'm a student living in a foreign country.
Do you expect me to use PC during lectures?

No, but I'd think it reasonable that for note-taking in class, you could probably tolerate a ThinkPad keyboard.

Also fuck you, being a snowflake about keyboards won't excuse your constant *CLACK*-*CLACK*-*CLACK* distracting everyone else.

>you could probably tolerate a ThinkPad keyboard.
I could not it's shit.
>CLACK CLACK CLACK
Those are silent Matias QC switches.
Actually quieter than the laptop's keyboard if you don't hammer the keys down full force.

How much are you really going to need to type? It's not going to be 1-2 hours of solid typing is it? You listen for 5 or 10 minutes and then write a short sentence summarising what was said..

For the probably 300-500 words you might write in notes per lecture, I think you could probably suffer the built in keyboard and retain your dignity.

The desktop pc is superior to phones, phones are for people who want to bother other people with their problems.
Nothing worse then getting a call, it interupt's what ever it is that you were doing so you can be bothered by someone who thinks your not in the middle of something more important then them.

>I think you could probably suffer the built in keyboard
As I said, no.
>Dignity
Do you honestly think anyone cares?
Also, I'm currently writing my master's thesis (and corresponding code) and this keyboard is a blessing.

Going back to the OP's topic, I wish I've gone with Yoga instead, so I could bend the original keyboard backwards and use external one more comfortably.

Now you're just being a retard and a smarmy cunt. Smartphones aren't intended to replace desktop PCs and you know it.

Have you got fingers made of eggshells or something? You don't have to care about what other people think, but you best not be one of those people on Jow Forums who whinge about not fitting in.

imagine being such a faggot that you use a mechanical keyboard with a laptop.
>it's a "minimal" layout
That's downgrade even from a laptop keyboard. What a retard.

A laptop ALREADY IS foldable.
The entire fucking point of a laptop is that it can be folded.

Do you carry your laptop with the screen and keyboard exposed? Or do you fold it over?

>imagine being such a faggot that you use a mechanical keyboard with a laptop.
I don't see the problem with not using some integrated shit when you have better options that suit your needs.

>That's downgrade even from a laptop keyboard
On the contrary.
Has everything I need exactly where I need it. Even the proper numpad.

Also, I have since upgraded to split version of this keyboard.

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Totally agree. No practical purpose.

user, it's clear to everyone that you're trying too hard to be a Jow Forumsentooman.

>I don't see the problem
The problem is that you sound like that fucker who takes out his razer gaming laptop with three screens in public.
not using some integrated shit when you have better options that suit your needs.
Laptop scissor keyboards are not that bad unlike the cheap rubber dome PC ones.

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>Laptop scissor keyboards are not that bad
Hahaha, the coping is real.

>Being this much of a pansy about keyboards
Have sex.

At least I don't look like a total sperg when I use my laptop.

>On the contrary.
>Has everything I need exactly where I need it. Even the proper numpad.
The use of fn/mod keys for all of that is overwhelming. If you're gonna take the whole keyboard with you, at least grab one that would have more keys than a laptop

Seems you miss the point entirely.

Well you're wrong. How about that?

>using a 60% keyboard
Must be nice having such low standards.

Look at his image user. That guy has no problems setting up a mechanical keyboard with his laptop in class around everyone else. Looking further into it, you can also see that he has three other things plugged in. That's quite a lot of hassle for a supposedly portable device.
On top of that, look at the fucking keyboard. That shit has no proper spacebar or enter key or backspace or shift key. They all have the same size.
Actually typing on that piece of shit must be a real pain in the ass.
This dude is quite simply just an autist. Nothing more. Actually trying to understand him is pointless.

I can't wait to use a deformed display and type on a virtual keyboard!

I saw a computer at Best Buy with a fucking e-ink keyboard. The screen is a regular color display and the keyboard is an e-ink panel. It's such a retarded idea.

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if someday they manage to give you tactic feedback so you feel individual keys, I'm all for virtual keyboards...

until then, it's utter shit

How is this beneficial over a traditional keyboard with tactile feedback or an on screen keyboard?

i don't know why they dont make a phone with a oled screen on one side and an e-ink screen on the back

you get a pocket e-reader, the ability to change the graphic on the back of your phone at will to whatever you want, and its a clear product differentiation in a market without much of that

because apple introduced the phone by throwing shade at the entire concept of using buttons

obviously the slate form factor wasnt a mistake and capacative buttons are an acceptable and usable alternative to physical buttons. people have drank that specific and not universally applicable marketing kool aid so bad that they not only don't understand why people would want buttons on their phone, they don't understand why they would want buttons on their computer

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>It's a man of colour, again
Why am I not surprised

This.
They could build the same folding form factor by making the screens edgeless on one side.

its so bad that blackberry still makes blackberries and people think they are just nostalgic novelties instead of a device with actual thought put into text input so its enjoyable to use as a communications device rather than a pure media consumption device

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The fold and the mate x are prototypes if you couldn't tell, the tech hasn't even been shown for a year what do you expect

why is this a bad idea?
custom layouts (japanese, colemak, whatever), and you could use the eink for reading ebooks or manga.
sorry, sweetie.
im sure you'll find someone someday.
just be yourself.

You're right, he probably spends half the class just getting all that shit out of his bag and plugging it in. What other shit could he be plugging into it anyway?

>and you could use the eink for reading ebooks or manga
Yeah or you could just get a kindle as well.

I would assume charger, mouse, smartphone and probably a second monitor.

Foldable devices makes sense for phones since it doubles as a tablet that you can have in your pocket, but this is just a tablet that doubles as a very inefficient and fragile laptop. Just get a surface pro if you want a tablet that doubles as a decent laptop.

the displays are touch, the idea is that the e-ink side could be used for reading documents, books or comics and also notetaking. E-ink is pretty good for that. The compromise is that you get a shitty touch keyboard.

>monkey see, monkey do
literally

staged as fuck, u mongs

>The use of fn/mod keys for all of that is overwhelming
It literally uses 2 keys next to space (2 1U keys) for everything. If that's overwhelming, you shouldn't be using modern OS.
>least grab one that would have more keys than a laptop
Less convenient.
Here I can use every Fn and numpad key without moving hands or looking on the keyboard.

>Being isle to count.
It's 40%.

>why is this a bad idea?

Keyboards need to be tactile, I'm sorry. It's a bitch to type fast on a screen where there is no physical sense of what you're hitting.

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