The Future - and Past - of Dual-Screen Laptops and Tablets
18 June 2018 • by Bob • Technology
Nearly a decade ago, Microsoft cancelled the Courier tablet (see below), which would have been the first dual-screen tablet/laptop on the market, and it would have been competing head-to-head with the single-screen iPad when that tablet was first released:
- Gizmodo: Courier: First Details of Microsoft's Secret Tablet
- Wired: Microsoft Cancels Courier Tablet
Now the Courier's untimely death seems especially premature, since the big news coming from Computex 2018 is that several of the big computer manufacturers are coming out with dual-screen tablets/laptops that look all-too-familiar to anyone who saw a Microsoft Courier tablet back in the day:
- Digital Trends: Brace yourself! The age of keyboard-less laptops is upon us
- Engadget: ASUS' Project Precog is a dual-screen AI-powered concept PC
- CNET: No keyboard, no problem: Welcome to the dual-screen laptop era
It seems that - given enough time - foresight and hindsight can become blurred...
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