Lenovo will apparently start selling this dual screen laptop from today in the US.  As you can see, it main feature is a secondary slide out screen (the primary screen is 17″, the secondary 10.6″), but is a fairly feature rich laptop anyway, with optional RAID / SSD, DVI / Display port / VGA display support, 5 USB ports, Wi-Fi, optional WiMax, a 7-in-1 card reader, a smartcard reader, upto 8GB of DDR3 RAM.

The secondary screen can be adjusted by up to 30 degrees, giving some control over the exact viewing angle.  Lenovo also state “Ideal for digital content creators and users, the optional digitizer provides high resolution, pressure high resolution, pressure sensitive control of the primary screen, the primary and the secondary screen or a specific defined area of either screen. Select models also come with a color calibrator that quickly and automatically adjusts the screen’s color to give true-to-life images and rendering 2D and 3D images, which are important items for digital content creators.”

The laptop with start at around $3700 and go up from there, so it’s not a cheap solution, but certainly shows some good innovation.  We expect the laptop will be available in the UK shortly.

Information courtesy of jkOnTheRun.

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