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…in reply to @suchipi
@suchipi This is essentially what the iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard is. Although I haven’t tried it for myself, I’ve seen a bunch of reviews and they suggest the main compromises are that the hinge has to be much stiffer in order to keep the screen vertical (making it hard or impossible…
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…in reply to @jed_fox1
@suchipi …to open one-handed) and that the maximum angle you can open the screen to is limited — even with the screen floating above part of the keyboard area — in order to maintain balance, whereas laptops are stable at most reasonable angles (this would be fixed to some degree by…
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…in reply to @jed_fox1
@suchipi adding more batteries, although even equally weighted halves would likely be less stable). I wish they’d make the bottom of the laptop out of an insulating material and somehow pipe the heat into the screen area though. Or maybe VR will make all this stuff obsolete.
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