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Military-Grade Dual-Screen Laptop on the way from gScreen

Posted 02/16/09 at 10:13:07 AM  by Paul Lilly

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It appears as though the mobile sector is gearing up for a dual-screen revolution, or at the very least, we expect to see the concept start to become more readily available. Last month Lenovo introduced its two-screen W700ds Thinkpad, and now gScreen is seeing double.

Unlike Lenevo's W700ds, gScreen's G400 sports two full sized 15-inch LED-backlit displays. Graphics chores are handled with either an Nvidia Quadro FX 2700M or GeForce 9800M GT, both with 512MB of video memory. Other specs include an Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 (2.8Ghz) or P8400 (2.26GHz), up to 8GB of RAM, up 500GB of hard drive space, and the usual assortment of ports.

The company says it is also working on a ruggedized version called the TITAN M-1, which is "being built specifically to specs requested by the U.S. Navy for extreme environments." The internal hardware will be a bit different, not all of which gScreen is wiling to comment on, but did say it will come equipped with an Intel Core 2 Quad QX9300 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive and built to MIL-STD810F standards.

No word yet on price or ship date, but gScreen says customers can reserve the G400 starting February 25th through Amazon.com.

Image Credit: gScreen

COMMENTS:7
TAGS: mobile, notebook, laptop, display, gscreen, dual-screen
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avatarWhat's the point? Why not

Submitted by routine on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 9:06am

What's the point? Why not just have a bigger monitor?

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avatarYou want to carry around a

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 11:35am

You want to carry around a laptop with a singe 40" display... Wait a minute yeah I do want to carry around a laptop with a 40" display. That would be soo freaking cool.. but anyway a 40" display for like business people not us complete nerds but people that make presentations and spread sheets and stuff like that a really really large display would be great but a huge really long laptop would be a real pain so this is one of those have your cake and eat it too kinda of deals. You get two displays that collapse into one so you get a decent sized airplane friendly form factor that expands out. As I said not being one of these suit guys that has to do spread sheets and presentations I would love to have a big ass laptop with a 40"LCD. Kinda makes me think of the ghetto blasters from the 1980 you know carrying a large Ghetto Blaster on your shoulder playing really loud music. Ah those were the days.

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avatarI think manufacturers troll

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 12:59am

I think manufacturers troll this website because I remember a while back I posted about wanting a Dual Display laptop and even one with a roll up display like from the movie Red Planet or was that Mission to Mars.

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avatarRemember Operation Red Wing

Submitted by plaskon on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 10:18am

It better be more secure than this one was (turn down your audio):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6777595885571084453#5m41s

The enemy did a hard drive swap and gained access to everything.  For more on the story, read the book Lone Survivor.

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avatarThat video really pisses me

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 02/17/2009 - 3:31am

That video really pisses me off. Makes me want to find the people that uploads these videos and find out where they got them from and roll up the whole network and get the damned enemies. And BTW the enemies are not soldiers protected under the Geneva Convention. They are partisans and just like the Viet Cong all partisans can be shot. It's completely legal to shoot partisans in a war zone. A trial is unnecessary and not required. Another word for partisan is terrorist.

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avatarThe laptop manufacturers are

Submitted by Gigabyte on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 2:10pm

The laptop manufacturers are not at fault for cases like that. The software & configuration are what make Information Systems (IS) secure or unsecure. The first thing the government does is wipe out everything that is preloaded... if it comes with preloaded software. The Government has policies for configuring & using IS. Information Assurance (IA) is very important to the DOD & the entire Federal Government.

 Once you lose physical possesion of a device you can toss out most safegaurds. People get complacent and don't allways follow the rules & policies for configuring devices too. The people inside any organization are the most dangerous.

I loved how that document was signed by the Director of the Center for Army Lessons Learned. Thanks for the laugh:)

 

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avatarYup it's only as secure as

Submitted by Antilogic81 on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 2:56pm

Yup it's only as secure as the person who has possesion of the device.

 

Can't blame manufacturers for human error and complacency.

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