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- Dell's entering the foldable
and dual screen laptop game
with some wild new next generation concepts at CES 2020,
which imagine a future where your laptop
is made entirely out of screens.
Dell has two concepts on display here,
each with a different spin on the dual screen device.
There's the Concept Ori, like origami,
a laptop with a 13 inch foldable screen
that can fold down to the size of a hard cover book.
And there's the Concept Duet,
which replaces the keyboard on a normal size laptop
with a second full size touch screen pad.
Now, of the two, the Concept Duet is the simpler pitch,
it's effectively an XPS 13,
but the keyboard has been swapped out
for a second 13.4 inch full HD display touchscreen.
The two screens can either be used
side by side for multitasking,
or as a single massive display
that content stretches across both panels.
For example, you can read an Ebook
with each panel displaying a single full page.
It's also a similar idea to the dual screen Surface Duo
that Microsoft announced last year.
There's also a keyboard accessory
that can be placed down on top of one of the touchscreens
with the rest of the screen acting as a trackpad
for when you wanna do more traditional laptop work.
Alternatively, the two screens can flip around
to form a single screen tablet device
something that Dell highlights
as an advantage of the two separate displays,
as opposed to a single folding one.
The end result is something that's a little heavier
than a regular laptop,
which makes sense given the extra screen,
but that's to be expected.
The foldable Project Ori is the more mysterious of the two.
Dell wouldn't offer many details on any of the specs,
except to say that the screen is approximately 13 inches,
and that it had QHD Plus resolution.
The display looks good though,
although as with pretty much any folding panel right now,
the plastic screen just isn't as nice as a glassed one.
It's also not the only foldable Windows laptop in the works.
Lenovo also showed off
a similar looking prototype last year too.
Both dual screen concepts take the same idea
and bring it in different directions.
Ori takes a regular laptop screen
and makes the hardware itself smaller.
And Duet take that same regular laptop,
and makes the screen everything.
The two concepts are just that for now, concepts.
But, like Alienware's Concept UFO,
which it's also showing off at CES,
they're pretty polished hardware,
and it's really easy to imagine
that these could be real products one day.
Additionally, Microsoft is also pushing
dual and foldable screen laptops in a big way,
with its upcoming Windows 10X software.
Now, Dell hasn't said
that these concepts will actually run 10X,
but it does mean that there is big backing
from the maker of Windows itself,
and that there's a custom version of its OS
specifically for hardware like this,
which could be the difference between
these concepts being a cool idea,
and the future of computers.
Now, Dell obviously isn't saying when to expect
either Concept Ori or Concept Duet to hit stores,
or even if they're ever gonna be sold at all,
but they're a fascinating look
at the possible future of computers.
One that's filled with more screen space than ever before.
If you wanna see more concept videos like this,
we have a great video that we just made about
Alienware's Concept UFO,
and for more great videos just follow The Verge,
we're gonna have stuff like this coming out of CES
all week long,
and that was too long for an end card.
- [Director] No, that was perfect!
- Oh, well then I shouldn't have done that at the end.