Powering the system is Intel's next-generation mobile chip, Tiger Lake, slated to speed up graphics and AI when it arrives later in 2020. With the keyboard snapped on, it's like a regular laptop 12.5-inch screen. To type, you can use either a virtual keyboard or, if you're squeezed into an airline seat, magnetically attach the physical keyboard that covers the bottom portion of the screen. You can also partially fold it into a regular clamshell laptop shape - except that its enormous screen sweeps down from the top all the way to where the keyboard would go.
You can best appreciate it - as CNET has in an exclusive look - when you fully unfold Horseshoe Bend, flip out its built-in kickstand, perch it on a tabletop and use its wireless keyboard.īut that's just one setup. It measures 17.3 inches diagonally, a notch bigger than the 16-inch display in Apple's latest high-end MacBook Pro. But thanks to new folding display technology, Intel has built a prototype PC called Horseshoe Bend that could offer the best of both worlds: a little laptop with a big screen.Īnd I mean a really big screen. If you're buying a PC, you may be trying to decide whether you want a big laptop with a big screen or a little laptop with a little screen.
