One of the problems with netbooks is that they have smaller displays than their full-sized notebook cousins, making it hard to work on more than one application at a time.
Kohjinsha's DZ Series of netbooks doubles the screen real estate when you need it. After you flip open the DZ, you can slide the primary screen to one side to reveal a second display underneath. Once fully open, you get access to two full 10.1-inch displays sitting side-by-side, giving you a super-wide viewing area.
This means you can run two applications at the same time, such as working on a document and browsing the Web, with one window on each display. It also means you can also stretch photos, and wide Excel spreadsheets, across the two displays.
Inside the casing is an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 processor running at 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM - upgradeable to 4GB - an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics chip, 160GB hard disk drive, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, and the usual wireless and broadband connection slots. You also get Windows 7.
The extra display does add weight to the DZ, which comes in at 1.84 kilograms - comparable to bigger laptops - while the dual displays obviously impacts battery life, which is limited to 4.5 hours.
The Kohjinsha DZ will launch in Japan this week with a fairly hefty price tag of 79,800 yen (around HK$7,200).
