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I’m not sure what the point of a rollable display is other than a company throwing money at “the next big thing” to see what sticks
How about a laptop with a battery that lasts longer than a day, isolation switches that physically disconnect power to the wifi, camera, microphone, trackpad, keyboard so that you can add peripherals and not worry about the cat typing for you, or for a program to decide to scan for wifi and eat your battery, replaceable hardware for when it inevitably outlives its old components, and built out of a material that can survive being put into a work bag and the the scratches/dings associated with being a portable device.
I think it is interesting, because I hope it would eventually lead to ultraportable systems where the phone is the main CPU. Instead of lugging around a laptop and a phone, I could connect my phone to have a small “lapdock-style” I/O system and this rollable display.
I would imagine trying to use a phone as the inputs and trying to have it do both kb and mouse could get tricky, that and phones already get real hot just running their standard operations, let alone doubling the resolution with a bolt on screen and cables which you’ll have to protect with its own case, probably one that doubles as a stand.
That and I’m pie in the sky-ing a laptop that will never be built.
Phones are more than capable to run business applications since 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapdock
With a rollable display, your keyboard becomes the dock with a built-in battery and usb-c hub. That dock doesn’t need to be big to fit the screen, you’d be limited by the dimensions of the keyboard (or keyboard + trackpad).
I see your point but at that point you’re carrying around a screen, the keyboard dock and your phone to do the job of one laptop
Flip that around. By having a (business) laptop around all the time, I am carrying a CPU, storage, webcam and audio I/O which are redundant if I have a smartphone with me.
At home I have a big screen, keyboard, big speakers, nice webcam. At work I have a big screen, keyboard, etc. If I could work from my phone I would not need to carry anything for my commute.
But you’re already describing having an additional screen and keyboard dock.
For argument’s sake, the laptop’s cpu is cooled properly thanks to its larger form factor, the storage is removable and therefore upgradeable, and the ability to run full windows/PC programs without relying on cloud compute or absolutely nuking your battery by trying to run an emulated or mobile version.
For me the argument of “A phone can do everything my job needs” doesn’t work for anything but email jobs, because a lot of them require a physical computer with USB, cat5, hdmi etc to connect to hardware that phones simply cannot talk to through some tangle of docks stuffed into one USB C port.
Yeah if you work from home why would you need a laptop if you have a desktop, but then we’re back to “Why would you need a roll out screen?”
It seems like putting a massive weakness into your laptop screen for the sake of a gimmick.
To be clear, I’m talking about a scenario for people are used to laptops because they are constantly moving their location and do not have any type of hot desk with traditional docks. Let’s call them “on-the-go” workforce.
laptop’s cpu is cooled properly thanks to its larger form factor
The CPU is not the bottleneck for the majority of office/email/conferencing applications, which what most on-the-go people need.
the storage is removable and therefore upgradeable
So it is on my phone. It’s rarer to find phones with SD slots nowadays, but not that difficult.
and the ability to run full windows/PC programs
Again, most on-the-go people don’t need that. Even software developers nowadays can go by through a lot of the work by using some GPT-like (or OpenClaw-like) assistant.
absolutely nuking your battery
The phone would be plugged to this “lapdock”, so it wouldn’t be using its own battery.
a lot of them require a physical computer with USB, cat5, hdmi
That’s I/O. Which could/would be provided by the lapdock.
