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2020 might be the year of reasonably okay foldable PCs, maybe
"We will bend it for you," an Intel representative told Vjeran, The Verge's video director, at our CES meeting. "Three times maximum." This did not make me think that Intel is particularly confident in the durability of its foldable PC.
That's fair enough, really. It's only meant to be a reference design, as Intel isn't a company that sells finished consumer electronics in the first place. But it's an example of how this year's CES has demonstrated the state of foldable screen technology. On one hand, the showings have convinced me that these products will be a big deal at some point. On the other, they've convinced me that that point is some way off.
While Intel's demonstration was the least finished, it also felt like the most significant. "Horseshoe Bend," as the codename goes, is a 17-inch 4:3 OLED tablet that folds in two to give you something roughly akin to a 13-inch laptop with a touchscreen replacing the keyboard and trackpad. It runs on a new type of Intel chip called Tiger Lake, which allows for a slim 7mm fanless design and a claimed 11 hours of battery life.
The utility is obvious. I wouldn't mind having one right now as I type this article on my conventional laptop in my hotel room. In desk-bound situations, you'd get a much bigger screen than would be practical to carry otherwise. For laptop-style use, you get a traditional physical design that can have a regular keyboard added if you need one or absent if you don't.
Horseshoe Bend is a reference design, meaning it's an Intel-provided example of what PC manufacturers should be able to do with a given class of chip. It's not quite a prototype since it's not intended to ever be finished. Intel has made similar mov
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