This obscene 7-screen laptop only has a lifespan of 1 hour

The Aurora 7 Laptop seems up straight from the imagination of a Hollywood prop builder working on a bad hacker movie. But with seven fold-out screens, there’s little chance anyone can actually use this beast on their knees. It’s a transformative mobile workstation for those who need more screen space than room for monitors.

Created by a British company called Expanscape, the Aurora 7 is actually just a prototype at this point in the game (as evidenced by the heavy use of 3D printed parts), but it’s designed to be true mobile workstation for everyone from developers and content creators to well-funded gamers who want a more immersive experience of a computer they don’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 an additional 2.5 TB of SSD storage, plus all the ports you could need to expand capacity even further. But the star of the show is the intricate mosaic of screens that includes four 17.3-inch 4K (3840 X 2160) LCD – two in portrait mode and two in landscape – as well as three smaller 7-inch screens pushing all 1920 X 1200 pixels, including one located in the wrist rest of the laptop.

Perhaps even more impressive is that all of these displays are designed to fold in on themselves 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 the Aurora 7 hope to reduce its weight to a lean 22 pounds when all is said and done, but it’s not a laptop you want to carry around the office and back every day. This is a machine you’ll want to build a custom wheeled cart for.

Although the Aurora 7 only exists in prototype form at the moment, Expanscape is still offer to sell their creations consumers demanding more pixels than ever before on a laptop. But not only does the company not make pricing information public, it also forces interested buyers to sign an NDA promising to remain silent about how much they actually paid for their unique mobile workstation in their company. kind. In general, prototypes always cost more than a plug-and-play version of a gadget given the time and money required to create individual parts. Making them by the thousands on a production line cuts costs significantly, but don’t expect the Aurora 7 to be close to a reasonable price if and when it is made available to the public.