GScreen Spacebook Offers Dual-Screen Mobile Computing, for a Price
GScreen Spacebook Offers Dual-Screen Mobile Computing, for a Price
Posted 08/29/2011 at 12:52pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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For those times when portability is absolutely, positively, not a concern, there will soon be a new choice in “mobile” computing. The GScreen Spacebook is a chunky little laptop that packs dual slide-out 17-inch LCD panels. After quite a lot of build up, the computer finally has a ship date this November.
The Spacebook weighs in at a backbreaking 10-pounds, but you get a lot of processing might for that price. The device will come with a Core i5 or i7 CPU, up to 8GB of RAM. 500GB of hard drive space, and a GeForce GTS 250 with 1GB of vRAM. To cut down on the weight as much as possible, the Spacebook has a Magnesium alloy frame.
The two screens slide out symmetrically, with one emerging from behind the other. The 17-inch panels are 1920x1080, which makes for a solid pixel density at that resolution. If you really need this kind of mobile workstation, the Sapcebook is going to be selling at a price commensurate with its high weight. The entry level version will go for $1899, and can be specced out for $2099
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Ghok
August 29, 2011 at 9:19pm
A very niche market. Certainly cool, but how often do you need something like this?
Zoandar
August 29, 2011 at 5:38pm
Here's the answer they sent me when I emailed them asking about the battery in this model:
"We have a 6-cell Li-ion that offers about 1-hour and 10-minutes with 2-screens. We are working external flat battery options that offer 5-6 additional hours and weigh about 2-pounds."
TerribleToaster
August 30, 2011 at 5:28am
That's about what I expected for battery life. I was hoping for 2 to 3 hours though. But the external battery is nice.
Houndf
August 29, 2011 at 2:23pm
I understand the whole arguement about how it may not be the most wise investment to purchase high-spec laptops, suggesting cheaper, more powerful PCs, but I have a certain desire for portability. When I think ultra portable, I think netbook. When I think portable, I think easily movable. The reason I would invest in a high-end laptop is so that I can take it from desk to desk and city to city with ease. I never see people lugging around their desktop PC in their cars, or stuffing them into backpacks.
That said, This laptop is a good portable computer that would be valuable to musicians and video and graphic artists in particularly (or at least I would use it for such functions). And I was shocked seeing it priced at under $2k for entry. I was expecting around mid-$2k.
TerribleToaster
August 29, 2011 at 1:18pm
What's the battery life like? Can it even run on a battery?
Dman222123222
August 29, 2011 at 5:13pm
one screen slides out from behind the other. leave the one screen out and turn the other off.
its ten pounds, at least some of that has to be battery.
Zoandar
August 29, 2011 at 2:58pm
Good question! Especially since they don't even mention the battery inb the specs for these on their website. I have emailed them and asked about it.
Houndf
August 29, 2011 at 2:26pm
It probably has battery-saving modes that utilize low processing speeds to extend the battery life. Anyone that buys these sort of laptops expecting and relying on longetivity of battery should know better.
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