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(Pocket-lint) - Here's thing you don't spot each day: a laptop with 2 displays.
Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 is surely an unconventional idea: a 17.3-inch laptop successful the main, implicit with a secondary 8-inch interior show to the close broadside of the keyboard.
It besides marks the extremity of Lenovo's erstwhile ThinkBook idea: the Plus Gen 2 one from 2020 featured a secondary E Ink surface successful spot of an exterior lid, the thought being you could prime up from 1 task successful notepad-like from, the bring that into the much accepted laptop abstraction erstwhile opening the product.
Clearly the E Ink show has shown its limitations - Lenovo has experimented with the thought before, replacing the Yoga Book 2's keyboard with one - and we deliberation the Gen 3 ThinkBook is simply a overmuch much logical thought for rapidly flicking betwixt ideas. That 8-inch tablet is simply a touchscreen and besides accepts stylus input, truthful it'll beryllium utile for menial tasks, specified arsenic calculator inputs oregon spreadsheet double-up; oregon much originative ventures, specified arsenic drafting oregon annotating documents.
As you tin spot from the representation up top, the ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 is an elongated laptop. That's due to the fact that it's 17.3-inch sheet is simply a 21:10 facet ratio. It's besides implicit with 3072 x 1440 pixels of solution and a 120Hz refresh complaint - truthful has the credentials to cater for creatives, not conscionable concern folk.
Whether typing distant to a much left-aligned keyboard would consciousness peculiar, however, isn't thing we've been capable to trial retired successful person. But with the ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 scheduled to beryllium astatine CES 2022, we'll beryllium definite to instrumentality a look fixed the opportunity.
The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 volition beryllium disposable from May 2022, with a starting terms of $1399.
Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 5 January 2022.
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