One usage mode I've mentioned here in the past is rotating a touch screen laptop/convertible 90 degrees so that one can hold it as a book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400887 >More than anything, the interface which I want to normalize is holding a laptop as a book and using the touchscreen
>(and optional stylus) on one side, and the keyboard (say for drawing shortcuts/modifiers) on the other side.
>Still surprised that this wasn't a standard for say the Voyager e-book reader.
>Hopeful that the Lenovo Yogabook 9i will help to popularize this (and if it had Wacom EMR, I'd have one and be
>working on such concepts) --- annoyingly, my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 is just a bit too large for this, and the >screen is so impossibly thin, trying it makes me worry about breaking it.
(I use a Levenger Lapdesk to support it when using it thus).
Am I the only person who does this? Who finds it a useful mode?
oh how I'd wish Microsoft would release the damn Neo. That would have been a stupidly perfectly device for that use case description. One feature that I feel is very overlooked with the Neo, is that its design was tandem with the Duo 1, meaning it was even on both sides.
One feature that is somewhat of buzz kill for me with both the Lenovo Yogbook i9 and the Asus Zenbook Duo, aside form the large size of each, they are not intended for handheld use. I've seen both in person and the bottom screen is thicker and heavier, and even the way the hinge design works, both just feel weird and unbalanced in hand, especially the Zenbook.
Comparativly, despite the insides, the Neo would have looked and felt perfectly symetrical.
I would prefer detachable for hot keys. I wish the Magic Keyboard switched to BT when detached for hot keys. That would be ideal for me. But I also still can't get over how Apple has failed to make the smart connector really shine through various connected snap on options.
For dual screen devices the size of a paperback or smaller, yes. I love holding a surface duo like a book. I think for me that posture would top out at 11" on each side. I do not want to hold the equivalent of a hardback text book or encyclopedia like a book because those are the types of books I would set down on a tablet to read anyway. I would very much enjoy a dual 8" screen device. Or the original Yoga X1 Fold but with better internals.