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New laptops take different approaches to 3D

21.06.10

My colleagues at ZDNet have been covering some of the 3D laptop announcements coming out of Toshiba and Lenovo . A boutique PC convention, Origin, also unveiled a 3D laptop at E3 last week . These new notebooks be contiguous 3D models from Acer and Asus, which began shipping tardy last year. I recently spotted a few others on the show floor at Computex, and Nvidia and Microsoft have said they are also working with Alienware and Dell among others on so-called 3D PCs, so I await to see more models in the near future.

So far all of these are mainstream laptops with 15.6-inch or larger displays. Don’t keep in view to find an ultraportable laptop with this technology any time soon, chiefly because it requires a powerful processor and discrete graphics, but also because video looks excellent on a big, high-resolution display.

The category will become a lot more engrossing as the hardware and movies for Blu-ray 3D become more widely available later this year, though not all 3D systems will underwrite it (more on that below). In the meantime, why would you want a 3D laptop?