A touch of excellence for the tablet PC dual touchscreen laptop gives a truly unique experience. The UPS man dropped the Iconia off at my place this morning and after an awkward. Winter set in, months passed, and here we are in late March with the Acer Iconia 6120 priced at 1200 and shipping to retailers next month. Acer announced the Iconia laptop back in November. Instead of the screen and keyboard, the keyboard Iconia ditches for a second screen, which can be used as extended desktop or a virtual keyboard. First Look at Acer’s Dual Screen, No Keyboard ‘Iconia’ Laptop. Except this one has some kind of off-brand digital assistant with always-on cameras recording you and selling all your info to. The high-concept feature that sets the Iconia Acer 6120 is also the 14-inch touch-screen tablet PC.
So I expect "project precog" to be the same basic thing: An incredibly heavy tablet with battery life that was far worse than a normal tablet, and it would be far too expensive if it were to ever come to market, which it won't. Plus, especially thanks to LCD price fixing at the time, adding a second screen also would have nearly doubled the cost of the device.
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My impression at the time is that it was inferior to a regular laptop in every conceivable way since adding a second screen generates more heat, essentially halves the battery life, and makes it far harder to do basic things like type and move the mouse around - which is a pretty big deal since the traditional interface is pretty much 100% of the reason that people buy a laptop instead of a tablet in the first place. The Acer Iconia 6120 A laptop with dual-screen laptop is as is a unique and innovative take on multitasking, but the virtual keyboard and Acer's touch software pack aren't ready for prime time.
I remember seeing a very similar dual-screen laptop at CES 2010 - but I think that one was by Acer, not Asus.