We’re still waiting for the laptop’s big year
by Monica Chin from The Verge - All Posts on (#600XH)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After a long, long month of laptop releases, Computex 2022 is finally over. In some ways, it's the Computex that wasn't.
The early part of this year was an exciting time to be a laptop reporter. Every company and its mother announced that big ideas were on the way. Wacky products abounded, from monitors to phones. LG Display (which supplied the 13.3-inch panel for Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Fold) showed off a 17-inch foldable OLED screen. We saw RGB, OLEDs, and haptics galore. Chipmakers promised architectural innovations and performance gains. We were told that these were all coming soon.
At the end of May was Computex, the biggest laptop-specific show of the year. (Well, it really was all of May - since many global attendees couldn't get to...