The Aurora 7 laptop seems raised directly from the imagination of a Hollywood prop builder working on a bad hacker movie. But with seven drop-down screens, there’s little chance anyone can use this beast in turns. It is a mobile workstation for those who need more screen real estate that has no room for monitors.
Created by a British company called Expanscape, the Aurora 7 is much more than a prototype at this stage of the game (as evidenced by the extensive use of 3D printed parts), but it is designed to be a real mobile workstation for everyone, from developers to content creators, even well-funded players who want a more immersive experience a computer they don’t have to leave at home.
Powered by an Intel i9 9900K processor with 64GB of DDR4 RAM and an NVIDIA GTX 1060 graphics card, the Aurora 7 also includes 2TB of hard drive storage and an additional 2.5 TB of SSD storage, plus all the ports you need to further expand its capacity. But the star of the show is the intricate screen mosaic that includes four 17.3-inch 4K (3840) x 2160) LCD: two in portrait mode and two horizontally as well three smaller 7-inch screens while pushing 1920 x 1200 pixels, with one located on the headrest of the laptop.
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Possibly even more impressive is that all of these screens are designed to fold over themselves to create them. a flat profile that can be carried in the bag, even if it is a bag large enough to store a 4.3-inch one.laptop weighing 26 pounds. The creators of the Aurora 7 hope to reduce their weight by up to 22 pounds when all is said and done, but this is not a laptop you want to carry to the office and back every day. This is a machine for which you will want to create a custom wheeled cart.
Although the Aurora 7 only exists in prototype form right now, Expanscape is still there offering to sell their creations to consumers who demand more pixels than had ever been introduced on a laptop. But not only does the company not make price information public, but it also requires interested buyers to sign an NDA that promises to keep the mother how much money they have actually paid for their unique mobile workstation. Generally, prototypes always cost more than a consumer version of a gadget given the time and money it takes to create individual pieces. Making them in the thousands on a production line significantly reduces costs, but we don’t expect the Aurora 7 to be close to a reasonable price if and when it is made available to the public.