Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/27/intel_dialogue_notebook_display/
Taiwanese firm pips Intel to tilt-and-angle laptop display
Product demo'd months before Intel concept machine shown
Posted in Hardware, 27th September 2006 22:17 GMT
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IDF Intel Mobility VP Dadi Perlmutter today showed off a concept notebook equipped with a special 'slide up and tilt forward' display. The mechanism mounts the laptop's screen on a stand that allows it to be raised and angled. Cute, but Taiwanese laptop maker Dialogue showed the same concept off almost four months ago.
As Reg Hardware reported [1] back in June this year, Dialogue showed its Flybook VM off at Taipei's Computex show in a fully operational form. The laptop has Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet and Bluetooth 2.0. It weighs 1.64kg and measures 29.2 x 22.2 x 2.6cm - ideal, the company claimed, for seat-back tables in aircraft.
If you missed Permutter's IDF keynote - or Computex, for that matter - here are our pics of Dialogue's implementation of Intel's concept... er... months before Intel showed it off. ®
And here's Mr Perlmutter and his prototype:
Read Reg Hardware's complete IDF Fall 06 coverage here [2]