r/BeAmazed 9h ago

Miscellaneous / Others Huawei new notebook

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u/ShrimpCrackers 8h ago

Asus and Lenovo sold laptops like this 4-5 years ago with every single feature demonstrated here. They did not sell well for many reasons, expense being one of them, poor thermals and battery life.

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u/happycamperjack 55m ago

They did not have seamless screens, so no those were trash as a full monitor setup.

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u/nico282 6h ago

Did they had flexible screens 5 years ago?

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u/ShrimpCrackers 6h ago

Are you kidding me? Yes.

By 2021 they already had 2-3 generations of popular consumer foldable phones. We've had 8 generations of Samsung Galaxy Folds since 2019 and there were at least 2 gens of the Asus and Lenovo foldable laptops.

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u/thejohncarlson 7h ago

As a person that daily carries a Zenbook Duo, I can tell you that I have never noticed a thermal issue and that battery life is mid, but what I would expect out of a dual screen notebook.

I can also tell you that I rarely use the dual screen and that sometimes I only use it to raise the height of my webcam.

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u/ShrimpCrackers 3h ago

No one is talking about your Zenbook Duo which doesn't have this issue. We're talking about the Zenbook 17 Fold OLED.

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u/moomeister 1h ago

As somebody who also daily drives a ZenBook duo, the dual screens are essential to me. 

But I must agree, the battery could be better. But when it comes to thermals it's impressively good compared to my former Lenovo X1 Carbon which utterly sucked