CES 2020: Intel’s Horseshoe Bend Concept Is a Foldable PC You’ll Want Right Now
Jan. 7, 2020Intel’s Horseshoe Bend features amassive 17.3-inch AMOLED foldable touchscreen display(with a 4:3 aspect ratio when the display’s unfolded), providing users one of the most immersive PC experiences on the move. The display size shrinks down to 12-inches when folded. The company has also baked a Microsoft Surface-like kickstand on the rear, which will allow you to prop up the foldable display.
Intel’s Horseshoe Bend concept is the world’s first-ever 17-inch foldable AMOLED PC. It’s unlike anything we have seen and sits alongside the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold to carve out a new foldable PC category.
The prototype shown off by Intel on stage was running the standard Windows 10 OS but the company sees theslimmed-down Windows 10X(first revealed at Microsoft’s Surface event last year) a more capable fit for its foldable concept. You can access the on-screen keyboard on the foldable display but attaching an external keyboard and mouse will give you a more desktop-like experience.
Horseshoe Bend is merely a concept for a foldable PC future, which is also one that could come to fruition – followed by mass-adoption – before foldable smartphones. We already have the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold among us if you’re interested in getting a taste of the future. But, you also have to be ready to write a massive check for the same.
