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I'm really apprehensive of any folding screens, mostly because of their durability. I don't see a need for it. Innovation is great, but does this really help with anything? Can anyone please tell me why this would be great a choice over a Thinkpad Carbon or something equivalent?

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I worked for Motorola back in the Razr days and I remember that the failure rate on folding phones was far higher than "candy bar" phones. I image that a screen will be far more fragile than the hinges that folded in those days.

There aren’t many choices for sub-A4 laptop that aren’t netbooks, so if your requirement is something more toward hardcover book form-factor for use on a side folding tray tables than B5 or A4 on fold down tables ... just like a good old ThinkPad 3xx ... priced at same ranges as well

That's a very specific requirement. But yes it does make some sense.

If people buy it than yes.

People said same things about iPhone and tablets.

Now those have their markets. So only future will tell (though I am not seeing this stick mainly due to price).

I don't want to have a separate desktop, but 95% of the time I use my laptop at home. I'd love to have a decent screen size when unfolded and use it like that (docked with external devices) every day, but still have the possibility to throw it into my backpack when needed.

If you'd use that thing in full screen mode then you don't have access to the keyboard. If you start docking keyboards and such then it defies its portability factor.

The best of both worlds would be to have a wrapped screen instead of a foldable one. I'd like a screen that extends when needed and wrapped away when not, eating as less space as possible.

The keyboard is detachable so you can use it next to the unfolded screen if I understand the description correctly.

Not sure why you think docking defies portability. As long as you have a usb-c port, you can attach display+peripherals with one cable when you're at the desk. Nothing is sacrificed.

If it's mostly reading something or media consumption on the move, even an 11 inch screen is good enough. I'd rather have an iPad pro or the new Air. Granted the iPad OS is sort of restrictive and still doesn't allow any interpreters or compilers etc. But it's still very functional and compact. But that's just me. Although I must admit that the higher end Lenovo laptops are very well built.

Never had one of those, but wouldn't a Surface or something alike be the right tool then?

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