Would you believe that Acer is working on a frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard? As far-fetched as the idea might be, it's certainly plausible, expected even. The idea, as rumored by
DigiTimes, involves doing away with the display's frame by printing colors directly onto the back of the display's reinforced glass substrate from Corning (a la
Gorilla Glass presumably). Coupled with a touchscreen keyboard, the rumored device should be impossibly thin by traditional laptop comparisons. Keep in mind that we've already seen this
Frame Zero concept pictured above from Fujitsu and Acer's arch-rival ASUS has been showing off its
dual-display laptop prototype with touchscreen keyboard for months. Even the
OLPC XO-3 plans to eschew the clickity keyboard in favor of a touchscreen version. And anyone who has ever seen a scifi movie knows that tactile keyboards and display bezels have no role to play in our computing future anyway, so we might as well get things started now -- or in the second half of 2010 according to
DigiTimes' sources.
Acer working on frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard? originally appeared on
Engadget on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:55:00 EST. Please see our
terms for use of feeds.
Permalink |
DigiTimes |
Email this |
Comments
More...
Acer working on frameless laptop with touchscreen keyboard? 
Linear Mode
