GScreen announces dual-screen laptop

08/30/09 09:41

Alaska-based GScreen Computer Corporation has announced a new series of dual-screen laptop computers. The Windows-based GScreen Spacebook is as a netbook-style PC with dual displays to double the usable workspace of previous GScreen portables. The company released its first images of the new device this week:

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“Our goal was to make a netbook that’s even less useable than current netbooks,” said company CEO Gordon Stewart. “Nobody really uses these things -- it’s just something you pull out on a long airplane flight to impress that hot chick in the next seat.”

(That's what she said. - Ed.)

The Spacebook will have a horizontal size barely bigger than a standard paperclip, and will feature two displays measirng 128x128 pixels, one in the traditional location, the other replacing the standard keyboard. Stewart says the screens will each be able to display one standard desktop icon or virtual key. “They don’t actually do anything yet, but we’re working on a software upgrade that will allow the top screen to make some kind of a ‘beep’ sound when the user presses the bottom screen. It’s going to be quite the shizz, as the young folks say nowadays."

Stewart, best known for founding the Sandals and Beaches resort chains in the Caribbean, admits “I don’t know beans about computers, but I do like chatting up hot chicks on airplanes. Of course, since they're usually my airplanes, conversation starters aren't normally much of a problem."

The Spacebook will reportedly be available through Amazon in December.

UPDATE: The MacInquirer has learned that GScreen’s Gordon Stewart is not the same Gordon Stewart who founded Sandals and Beaches. But GScreen's Stewart says he likes wearing sandals on beaches, as well as chatting up hot chicks on airplanes.

UPDATE 2: We've also learned that nobody actually says "the shizz."

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