Comments on: Battle of the giraffe-necked laptops

Philips comes out with its own 'Longneck' with extendable screen

[riredale]

Again, you're missing the point

There's a huge advantage to this kind of laptop design, and it's not to raise the screen up a couple of inches. It's to make laptop computing workable on an airline tray table. Just pull the screen up and towards you a bit, and now your laptop can sit comfortably on an airline tray table even if the bozo in front of you has his chair fully reclined.

I'm really hoping this kind of laptop design becomes commonplace soon. Millions of road-warriors would no doubt agree.

[fleurya]

A great design for certain disabled people

It may be quite a minority, but certain people with uncorrectable visual
impairments can really benefit from this design. Laptop use is becoming more of
a necessity, but people who have a hard time reading the smaller screens have a
big problem reading screens comfortably or have to hunch over to see them.
This helps bring the screen to their eye level no matter where they need to use
the laptop.

[kalfdjkladjflajkd]

Ergonomics!

I am surprised that no one has built something like this. The screen should be at eye level, your arms should be at the lap level. Any other setup is a problem to the arms or neck.