{"id":7859,"date":"2002-11-04T15:26:48","date_gmt":"2002-11-04T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2002-11-04T15:26:48","modified_gmt":"2002-11-04T15:26:48","slug":"giant-er-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7859","title":{"rendered":"Giant&#8230;er&#8230;Laptop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=left src=\"http:\/\/www.xentex.com\/voyager\/image\/tour\/opendim.gif\">Here&#8217;s one from the &#8220;Who the hell is their market?&#8221; department: <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xentex.com\/\" target=new>Xentex<\/a> has a fold-out laptop computer. It starts out life as a 12-pound, normal laptop-sized bundle, but them folds out in four sections into a&#8230;ah&#8230;VastTop with a 20&#8243; dual TFT screen. <\/p>\n<p> Um&#8230;kinda cool and all, but where the hell would you use it? Not on a plane, train or in an automobile. It&#8217;s hard enough finding space for a regular desktop-replacement-sized laptop on the go, let alone, this big-boned boy. I also wonder about the dual screens, which they make a big about, like it&#8217;ll greatly boost your efficiency. To me, it smells like they tried to make something positive out of a design problem (how to deal with a bi-folding screen). C&#8217;mon, there can&#8217;t be a sustainable market for this thing, can there? Oh yeah, this baby&#8217;ll put ya back five Gs.<\/p>\n<p> [Thanks to Sean Carton]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s one from the &#8220;Who the hell is their market?&#8221; department: Xentex has a fold-out laptop computer. It starts out life as a 12-pound, normal laptop-sized bundle, but them folds out in four sections into a&#8230;ah&#8230;VastTop with a 20&#8243; dual TFT screen. Um&#8230;kinda cool and all, but where the hell would you use it? Not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giant&#8230;er&#8230;Laptop?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}