The Aurora 7 laptop seems high straight from the imagination of a Hollywood ad builder working on a bad hacker movie. But with seven folding screens, there’s little chance that anyone can actually use this beast in turns. It is a mobile workstation for those who need more real estate on the screen than they have space for monitors.
Created by a British company called Expanscape, Aurora 7 is very much just a prototype at this stage of the game (as is evident by the widespread use of 3D printed parts), but it is designed to be a real mobile workstation for everyone, from developers to content creators, even to well-funded players who want a more exciting experience a computer he doesn’t have to leave at home.
Powered by an Intel i9 9900K processor, backed by 64 GB of DDR4 RAM and an NVIDIA GTX 1060 graphics card, the Aurora 7 also comes with 2TB of hard drive storage and another 2.5 TB of SSD storage, plus all the ports you could ever need to expand its capacity even further. But the star of the show is the intricate mosaic of screens, which includes four 17.3-inch 4K (3840) X 2160) LCDs – two in portrait mode and two in landscape – as well three smaller 7-inch screens, all pushing 1920 X 1200 pixels, with one located in the wrist support of the laptop.
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Possibly even more impressive is that all these screens are designed to fold on them to create a flat profile that can be carried in a bag – although a bag large enough to store a 4.3-inch –thick laptop that weighs 26 pounds. The creators of Aurora 7 hope to reduce their weight by up to 22 kilograms, when everything is ready, but this is not a laptop that you want to carry to the office and return every day. This is a machine for which you want to build a custom wheeled basket.
Although Aurora 7 only exists in prototype shape right now, Expanscape is still offering to sell his creations consumers who demand more pixels than have ever been crowned on a laptop. But not only does the company not disclose pricing information, it also asks interested buyers to sign an NDA that promises to keep the mother on how much money they actually paid for their unique mobile workstation. In general, prototypes always cost more than a consumer-ready version of a gadget, given the time and money it takes to create individual parts. Increasing them by the thousands on a production line significantly reduces costs, but don’t worry that the Aurora 7 is close to a reasonable price if and when it is made available to the public.