This $900 Chinese laptop extends Apple MacBook Pro’s vision of dual screen… literally
64GB RAM, 4TB SSD and a Core i7 CPU may lure Windows users looking for something different.
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Appleintroduced theTouch Baron theMacBook Proin 2016 and phased it out a few years later on 14 and 16-inch models much to the chagrin of a lot of fans.
Now a flurry of Chinese laptop vendors are selling hundreds of notebooks that add a secondary 14.1-inch touch screen to a main 16-inch one (although not as good as one of thebest portable monitorsbut a great implementation that extends the concept embraced by Apple for the Touch Bar). Check out thisincredible laptop with an integrated 7-inch tablet.
Oushedi dual-screen laptop:Was 1475.65Now 872.87 at AliexpressSave 40%This challenger brand laptop comes with a Core i7 CPU (albeit 10th gen), 64GB of memory and a staggering 4TB SSD. The two displays (16.1-inch and 14-inch) are the main attraction of this fantastic notebook. Use the on-page coupon to get this price.
Dual screens should - in theory - be a boon for productivity aficionado, creatives looking for theirbest video editing laptopor even coders craving for alaptop for programmers.
If you look closer though you will see that the inspiration for such a laptop comes from Asus with itsZenBook Pro Duoor theROG Zephyrus Duomodels: they do look very similar but the Oushedi is in no way a perfect replica of the latter. Forunder $900 (excluding local taxes but including delivery) from Aliexpress, you get anIntelCore i7-10750H processor (with an integrated GPU),64GB RAM, a4TB SSD(you can add a second SSD to double the capacity) and a metal chassis.
A useful unique selling point
The main 16-inch display has a 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution while the smaller 14-inch touchscreen monitor has a 1920 x 550 pixel resolution that is raised at a slight angle, pushing the monitor further down and removing the palm rest altogether - both displays have very thin bezels as well.; underneath it is an air vent to help with cooling the internal components; a touchpad is also located at the right side of the backlit keyboard. There’s no numeric keypad.
The rest of the specification is where corners have been cut: there’s no Wi-Fi 6e, only Wi-Fi 5. No Thunderbolt ports, only a standard Type-C port. There is a Gigabit Ethernet port but there’s no card reader; other than the three USB ports and a HDMI connector, there’s no fancy connector. I couldn’t find any information about the battery life.
The marketing literature mentions that the main screen supports “100% RGB gamut” and a brightness of 400 nits with support for two external graphics cards via a dedicated graphics card interface which I couldn’t find in the pictures. Aliexpress gives a 75-day buyer protection and there’s no taxes or duties included but no words on the hardware warranty.
This alone will be a major obstacle to anyone looking to buy one of these extravagant laptop.
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Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled inwebsite buildersandweb hostingwhen DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.
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