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No matter how large your laptop display is, sometimes it helps to have a little more screen space. And there are a growing number of ways to get that without docking your laptop to a desktop monitor. You could buy a portable monitor – some models even give your notebook two or even three extra screens.
Or you could buy a dual-screen laptop like the Lenovo Yoga Book 9i, Asus Zenbook DUO, or ACEMAGIC X1. And if two screens aren't enough, maybe three will do the trick? Several Chinese PC vendors are now selling a triple-screen laptop that features a 16 inch primary display in the center and a pair of smaller 10.5 inch displays that fold out on the sides.
At first glance, the laptop looks a lot like one of those dual-screen portable monitors designed to attach to existing notebooks. But these screens are actually built directly into the computer, with a pair of hinges connecting each side monitor to the primary display.
To close the laptop when you're not using it you can just fold those side displays so they cover the primary display and then close the laptop lid. Then when it's time to use the laptop, just lift the lid and unfold those screens and you get a whole lot of screen space on the go, including:
While the key advantage to this kind of setup is the ability to view different apps on each screen, the setup is sort of like having a single display that measures 29.5 inches diagonally… if you don't mind having thick lines that cut through that display.
Despite that massive amount of screen space, the notebook is reasonably compact, measuring 374 x 261 x 28mm (14.7″ x 10.3″ x 1.1″) when folded. It is a bit on the heavy side, weighing 2.6 kg (5.7 pounds), but that's unsurprising for a mobile computer that's basically a 16 inch laptop plus two portable displays.
While the notebook's stand-out feature is the multi-display setup, other specs are… a little dated. It's powered by a 12th-gen Intel Core Alder Lake P-series processor and features DDR4-3200 memory.
The good news is that it's not ridiculously expensive. Prices start at around $700 for a model with an Intel Core i7-1260P processor (although shipping to the US will set you back $51 and it's unclear whether tariffs will drive up the total cost). There's also at least one company that appears to be selling a model with a slightly higher-performance Core i7-1270P chip, but the starting price for that version is closer to $1200.
Each model has two SODIMM slots for up to 64GB of total memory, a single M.2 2280 slot with support for PCIe 4.0 storage, a 77 Wh battery, 1MP webcam, a backlit keyboard, a fingerprint sensor, stereo 1W speakers, dual microphones, and a set of ports that includes:
Product descriptions also note that the computer supports external graphics cards, but there's little explanation of how this works on a notebook without an OCuLink, Thunderbolt, or USB4 port. My best guess is that you could theoretically use an adapter to connect an external graphics dock to the laptop's M.2 connector, but since I believe it only has a single M.2 slot you'd also probably need a dock with an SSD slot to hold the computer's operating system.
In other words, I highly doubt you'd actually want to use an eGPU with this system because it sounds like a huge hassle… if it's even actually possible at all.
There are multiple listings for this triple-screen laptop on AliExpress, and some have conflicting information about some features, so I'm uncertain whether it ships standard with support for WiFi 5 or WiFi 6. It's possible that some sellers include one while others offer the other. But it's also possible that there's a misprint somewhere. After all, one product page also describes the USB Type-A ports as USB 3.0 in a spec table, but then labels them as USB 2.0 ports in an image.
So I'd take everything you find in the product descriptions with a grain of salt, and I'm not sure I'd actually buy one of these laptops unless more details were clarified. But as a fan of multi-screen laptops, I can't help but be intrigued by the unusual design.
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