First SideShow enabled laptop

Posted by admin on 12-23-2006 in

Asus recently released the W5FE laptop, the first SideShow lid-top laptop model ever. The laptop sports at 320x240 QVGA TFT display mounted on the LCD main lid. I've spotted this laptop version for awhile now, but this version seems to be a production version. Apparently this SideShow unit is based on FreeScale's  I.MX Vista Sideshow develpoment kit. IMHO, unit is rahter bulky and consumes uncessary space across the entire laptop lid.

Nevertheless, this is the first SideShow laptop model, ever. Probably we will see more laptops at CES, where Microsoft is planning a maga launch for Vista and Vista related products. Scroll down for more pictures....