Dual screen 10.1-inch netbook looks very appealing, but how is it on battery life?
Earlier this month I talked a bit about the cool
Kohjinsha 10.1-inch netbook with the dual screens that debuted at CEATEC. The machine looked cool enough in pictures, but I really wanted to see the machine in action to get an idea of how all the dual screen goodness was pulled off. The little dual screen machine has
tipped up on video over at Gizmodo and it looks fantastic.
The lid of the netbook with the dual screens looks barely thicker than the lid on my MSI U100 netbook and the Kohjinsha packs in two of the 10.1-inch screens. The hinge mechanism is much smoother and slicker than I had expected. The screens slide in a method similar to hot the keyboard slides out of a mobile phone like the DROID or any other slider phone.
We already know the specs of the machine with an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU running at 1.6GHz, a maximum of 4GB of RAM, 160GB of storage and the little netbook runs Windows 7. I also like that whatever you have opened on the second screen goes back to the primary screen when the secondary display is put away. One big aspect of the machine we are still unsure about is battery life; it has to be impacted by the second LCD. The machine is expected to debut in 2010 at a price said to be under 100,000 yen ($AUD1231). Hit this
link to see the video on YouTube.