Based on the specs I'm expecting this to be out of my budget, but I really really want to replace my everyday-carry 12" tablet with this. It'd be so awesome to have a much bigger screen, of such brilliant specifications.
I have to hand it to Apple, they have been pushing the bounds of what we expect from consumer/pro-sumer displays. I expect this will be out of range, but decent screen specs are starting to become more available across more price points, and that's great. With really good computing hardware being the norm, competing to offer a good display on your laptop is a great feature. More and more companies, like Asus here, are being forced to respond, are having to up their game.
Tricks like this here that Asus is pulling- of making more screen real estate available in a more compact form- that's really really a nice trick. It's almost certainly- alas- going to come at that exotic price point, not be the across-the-board competition I just spoke of. But I'm still excited to see it.
Based on the price of Samsung foldable phones, the screen alone puts this thing outside my budget. From a productivity standpoint, I’d prefer 2 normal screens like the MS Duo. This is really early adopter stuff.
Yes I know. In my view, the Liquid Retina XDR displays have raised the bar though. They have created a mass-awareness & a pressure in the rest of the market, that has driven others to compete & innovate. I know Apple isn't the first either, but previous high-quality display notebooks existed in a niche, whereas the Macbook Pro is kind of the a stock-standard industry-default computing choice that so-happens to set the display bar very very high.
I have to hand it to Apple, they have been pushing the bounds of what we expect from consumer/pro-sumer displays. I expect this will be out of range, but decent screen specs are starting to become more available across more price points, and that's great. With really good computing hardware being the norm, competing to offer a good display on your laptop is a great feature. More and more companies, like Asus here, are being forced to respond, are having to up their game.
Tricks like this here that Asus is pulling- of making more screen real estate available in a more compact form- that's really really a nice trick. It's almost certainly- alas- going to come at that exotic price point, not be the across-the-board competition I just spoke of. But I'm still excited to see it.