> From: Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Gentle HP 3000 list members,
>
> Recently on another list, someone asked the question about the size of
the
> biggest screen available on a laptop.  I answered and then got whimsical.
>   I thought I would share my answer with the members of this list.  I
> apologize in advance to the few people who are members of both lists, and
> to the members who are definitely not interested in this issue, and
> especially to those who do not think it is funny.
>
>
>
> The biggest screen I have seen advertised is 15.1 inches.  Most are
running
> between 12.1 to 14.1.
>
> It is an interesting question though, because it leads one to ask, "What
is
> the biggest size screen you can have on a laptop?".  My guess would be
that
> we are about at the limit now, since these machines are supposed to be
> notebooks, or laptops, i.e. portable.
>
> Then again one must not be constrained in one's anticipation of future
> technological development.  It would be interesting to see if there could
> be such a thing as foldable screens, a bit like the butterfly keyboards
IBM
> had a few years ago.  In the future, when you open up the laptop, out
would
> unfurl this big ole screen 17, 19, 21 or even 24 inches across.  This
would
> not be desirable on a plane.  Even the current notebooks are too big to
use
> when you sit in cattle class.  Especially when the person in front of you
> suddenly reclines their seat to the maximum, magically transforming your
> 12.1 inch screen into a 2.1 inch screen. As you peer onto the person's
> scalp, you toy with the idea of testing the temperature of the coffee on
> that head of not-recently-washed hair that has just appeared 4 inches in
> front of your eyes.  As your eyes water from your personal disaster, you
> are left to wonder if the sudden blizzard of dandruff is harmful to the
> remnants of your laptop.
>
> I guess in a few years, we will have little notebooks, about the size of
a
> credit card, that we put down on the desk, press a button and out,
> cartoonishly, comes a 27 inch screen and a full size keyboard.
>
> Then again, we may have computers were the monitor fits in a pair of
> glasses, and equipped with voice-recognition software.  I can see it now,
> walking down the street, or driving even, and Windows 2001 puts up a blue
> screen of death.  You can't see anything and you walk into someone or a
> wall, or crash your car into the truck in front of you.  You can then
blame
> Bill Gates for your misfortune: "I'm sorry Sir/Ma'am/Officer, it's Bill
> Gates' fault.  He made me do it," which seems to be the favorite sport of
> some people on this list.  <Very Big Grin>
>
Monitor??  What do you need a monitor for?  You talk to the computer
(at your waist, like a cell phone - or maybe it IS the cell phone
combined with a computer) through a mike and it talks to you
through earphones.  At home or at the office you plug in a monitor,
 if you need to see something.

Maybe, the computer will even read your mind (:-)).

Regards,

Nick Demos  [log in to unmask]

Performance Software Group
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