Aurora 7 (the notebook with seven displays)

2021: The announcement of the notebook with seven Aurora 7 displays

At the beginning of February, 2021 the British company Expanscape provided the first-ever notebook which has seven screens. Aurora 7 was developed both for professional use, and for gamers and includes five additional displays of the different sizes which fasten to the main 17.3-inch screen. The seventh additional screen is built in space under the device keyboard.

Three additional 17.3-inch panels join the basic display unit: one with the same landscape orientation is over the display, and two portrait screens of the identical size are located from the main screen on both sides on each side. Thus, four screens have the diagonal of 17.3 inches and permission 4K, other three — the diagonal of seven inches and permission of Full HD.

The Aurora 7 notebook from Expanscape

With all displays the notebook weighs considerable 17 kg, but even in that case Aurora 7 is more convenient for transportation, than separate monitors, developers claim. Detailed technical characteristics and cost of the device by February, 2021 do not reveal, but Expanscape reported that the notebook uses processor Intel Core i9-9900K which is connected to GeForce GTX video card 1060 from Nvidia. At the same time the body is rather big for placement of other platforms, for example more modern Intel Core i9-10900K or AMD Ryzen 9 3950X.

The additional hardware includes 64 GB of memory and several versions of drives. In particular, Aurora 7 allows to install two PCIe M.2 solid state drives, the 2.5-inch solid state drive and the hard drive with a capacity of 2 TB. Expected autonomous operating time of the notebook is 2 hours 20 minutes, and Expanscape equipped Aurora with 7 two batteries: the battery on 82 W-h supports operation of the notebook, and the second battery on 148 W-h provides a power supply of displays.^[1]

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