News Compal Infinite Laptop built around screen that extends from 14- to 18-inches, horizontally

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Manufacturer Compal Electronics has won an iF Design Award 2025 for a previously unseen design with a horizontally extending screen.

Compal Infinite Laptop built around screen that extends from 14- to 18-inches, horizontally : Read more

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

What do you prefer?

Neither. OLED panels don't belong on a display that will show static image elements for perhaps hours on end.

 

[RedHagar]

Why do you immediately assume a laptop would have static displays? I have never had a static display on a laptop...since they were invented!

All my displays will be OLED this year.

 

[JohnyFin]

Stay away from that types of products.

 

[Heiro78]

Why do you immediately assume a laptop would have static displays? I have never had a static display on a laptop...since they were invented!

All my displays will be OLED this year.

So you have your taskbar hidden normally as you do the ribbon in word processors and the like? There's plenty of static images on windows and mac OS. Can't speak to Linux.

That being said, OLED improvements for burn in have been great and I doubt it's such a problem anymore. There's a youtuber with a video of a Nintendo Switch OLED having been on for about a year that had bad burn in but only after the extreme case it was put in. Rtings is doing a long term test of a bunch of TVs and at the last update, the OLEDs weren't doing so bad.

 

[Heiro78]

Stay away from that types of products.

I would stay away from an unknown company but what else is keeping you away from this product exactly?

 

[BFG-9000]

I would stay away from an unknown company

The second largest laptop manufacturer in the world is an unknown company? They are OEM for laptops from Lenovo, Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HP and Toshiba, plus the Apple Watch. The only larger manufacturer is Quanta Computer who make Macbooks.

 

[th2102]

This company is a very famous OEM. Many major brand laptops such as HP, Dell, etc. are made by it

 

[Notton]

If you look at long term OLED TV and monitor burn-in tests/reviews, the burn-in problem is all but gone.
The main issue for OLED is shimmering when combined with variable refresh rate.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Why do you immediately assume a laptop would have static displays? I have never had a static display on a laptop...since they were invented!

All my displays will be OLED this year.

Really? Every computer I've used in the Windows era has had static elements everywhere, from taskbars to title bars to backgrounds to games with static display elements.

If you trust OLED then go ahead and use it, but considering they won't warranty it for 5 years parts and labor it says to me they don't have faith it will last 5 years. Not even LG will warranty their top end panels for 5 years parts and labor, and those are displays with far fewer static elements than a computer display, so how am I to trust something that will be used for potentially 50-100 hours per week with far more static elements?

 

[carlinlemon]

I'm wild about this idea. It still needs to work with a stylus for me, and unfortunately a 2 in 1 design wouldn't work so well with this design, but even if it just had a 180 degree hinge, I would gobble this up.

Sign me up.

 

[Heiro78]

The second largest laptop manufacturer in the world is an unknown company? They are OEM for laptops from Lenovo, Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HP and Toshiba, plus the Apple Watch. The only larger manufacturer is Quanta Computer who make Macbooks.

Sure is to the common consumer of laptops like me. Had no idea who they were

 

[BFG-9000]

Well I suppose they only print their name on the parts inside, so you'd only see it if you ever took the laptops apart.

30 years ago I had Winbook and NEC Pentium 1 laptops made by them, and most of the more... generic-looking notebooks were theirs too. See, for decades they've been an ODM (that is, they design the platforms themselves, not just make them + other brands simply have Compal print their names on them) with kind of boring designs so it's good to see them innovating with features that not even the Sony and ASUS laptops they made for those companies as OEM had.

This is as neat as IBM's "butterfly" unfolding full-size keyboard was, and I think I trust roll-up screens more than folding ones to be durable.

Burn-in on Plasma and OLED has never been any worse than on CRT as they actually all use the same phosphors and only light them up in different ways. Just think of them as display technologies you don't want to crank up the brightness on, so they aren't as suited for use outdoors or brightly-lit office environments. In your dim basement they should do fine and look great for many years. Now those phone manufacturers really run OLED way too bright, but they also expect you to replace it by 2 years too.

LCDs use the same phosphors also, but in fluorescent bulbs or white LED backlighting so all of the colors dim at the same rate and evenly across the entire panel so this will be less noticeable. And given the low resolution of local-dimming LED backlighting, even then you'd probably be hard-pressed to see where static elements have eventually made parts of the screen dimmer than others too.