First images of gScreen Spacebook laptop with two full screens

When using a laptop it has one clear disadvantage over desktops and that’s screen real-estate. The options range from the tiny 10-inch netbooks to the top-end 17 and 18-inch displays. Lenovo has attempted to offer more screen space with an additional slide-out 10.6-inch display on the W700, and there’s always the option of plugging in an additional display, but that’s not practical if you want to remain portable. But now there may be a solution on the horizon from company gScreen.

The gScreen Spacebook is a conventional laptop, but it has two displays of equal size. That means you can have two 15, 16, or 17-inch screens housed in a portable, yet heavy case. The screens manage to fit inside a standard footprint laptop case as one screen slides behind the other. That does mean the laptop will be thicker, but should still fit inside one of the many laptop carrying cases available. It also has the advantage of giving the user the flexibility of only using one screen instead of two depending on what tasks they are carrying out.

The specs for the Spacebook are as follows:

• 2 LED backlit display screens (15.4, 16, or 17-inch)
• Windows VISTA/ WIN XP PRO (optional)
• Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26-GHz
• 4 GB of RAM (2GB DDR2 SO-DIMM x 2)
• 320GB 7200-rpm HD
• NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GT with 512MB dedicated memory (or) NVIDIA® Quadro FX 1700M Graphics with 512MB dedicated memory
• 9-cell battery
• IEEE 1394 1 Graphics Card Output (15-pin, D-Sub) X 1, HDMI X 1 Mic-in X 1, Line-in x 1, Headphone X 1 PCI Express Card X 1 AC Power Adaptor Output: 19V DC, 90W Input: 100~240V AC, 50/60Hz universal Battery Pack Li-ion 9 cells

The image you see above is the first real shot of the machine as before now there has only been a concept image on the gScreen website. Gizmodo also has three other images of this first machine.

In the future gScreen is planning to go smaller and release a dual 13-inch Spacebook, but to begin with it is expected that military and high-end workstations costing a small fortune will be released before any consumer models are considered. However, gScreen has said it is trying to release before the end of this year and keep the price below $3,000.