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Article #621016Re: Computers With Interesting Form Factors
From: Quadibloc
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 05:44
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 05:44
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On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 7:19:29 PM UTC-7, J. Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:12:47 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc > <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > >Recently, the DELL Inspiron Duo came to my attention. A number of laptops > >have a lid that opens 360 degrees to operate in tablet mode; this one, > >instead, had the display turn 180 degrees in the rest of the lid that framed > >it, so that the tablet mode left the keyboard protected on the inside. > My Thinkpad X is like that. The new ones aren't though. Ah, yes. But the Thinkpad X display was re-oriented by swiveling the whole top of the laptop horizontally around a single pivoted hinge. In the case of the DELL Inspiron Duo, the display was turned vertically in the middle of the top of the laptop, which stayed in place as a frame. So the same result was achieved somewhat differently. John Savard
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