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Condor
6y

Bezelless displays are a joke. Even the regular displays like this one from my laptop don't need nearly as much bezel as they're usually given.

The black indent at the top of the picture is hiding the display controller, which can easily be moved to the back. The rest of it.. a little bit of internal frame to keep the LCD intact during impacts on the outer case but that's about it.

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  • 6
    Then go ahead, design a phone with a 100% screen to body ratio that can be mass produced at a reasonable price.
  • 10
    @Dacexi 100% is impossible, as you can see these displays still have .5cm spacing around the panel. Besides, I'm not a manufacturer so unless you can give me a factory, I'm not going to mass produce anything. I'm just sharing my findings after disassembling my own laptop.
  • 5
    @Dacexi however, if I do have a factory and you can pay me to design a bezelless monitor, it wouldn't be hard. Especially if 100% BS isn't a requirement - just like it isn't with any computer display - but only a very tiny bezel is. Essentially what most phones have, incorporated into a PC display (where most panels still have some cm of spacing around them).

    And if you really insist on 100% screen to body especially when you're going for multihead monitors, then you don't need a bezelless display. You'd just need a single bigger one.
  • 0
    Has anyone ever even said that it's hard to get the display bezelles? The problems as far as I know are cameras and speakers.
  • 7
    @Dacexi @sSam

    Let me get this clear. I disassembled a laptop, not a phone. A laptop of which the bezel is 2.5cm on each side. Not a phone. The mobile phone industry is competitive as fuck so I'm pretty sure that in a year or two we'll have bezelless phones (not that I'd buy one, I hate those stupid notches). What I am saying however is that the PC market could learn from the physical limitations imposed on phones. To reduce that aforementioned 2.5cm down to 1cm or even .5cm.

    I'd also like to mention that saying shit like "Don't like it? Design and mass manufacture it." is completely unreasonable and makes you sound like a fucking client. Just like mobile phones have physical limitations, so do I.
  • 1
    @Condor laptops don't have the same needs as phones. You are saying that you can make your laptop display bezelles when no one is even asking for it. I'm pretty sure if my laptop didn't have bezels I would've cracked the display already.
  • 0
    Your first dissassembly?
  • 4
    @gitlog I've done quite a few of them, previous ones were my Acer AIO and my Acer Liquid Z630 (which recently died and got replaced with a Nexus 6P - although I do have a pending project on the former, just awaiting delivery on a battery for the Liquid Z630 for the controller as the Liquid Z630 requires a signal on its ID pin which comes from the battery controller and I don't know the value of. If it boots up with an "Acer verified controller", I might be able to deploy a VNC server on it over ADB and use its motherboard as a testing device). The AIO shares the same problem, and if I were to be ready to replace its chassis with a more suitable thin bezel one, I'd totally do it - just like in this laptop the display allows for it.
  • 1
    Just went through my mind:
    Dell U2414H is pretty much bezel less. I guess it is as much as it can be while staying at reasonable price?

    Byt that's desktop PC territory
  • 0
    Why do you want a screen without bezels? That's extremely detrimental to durability.
  • 3
    @varikvalefor Not necessarily. You can have reinforcement on the back to prevent screen from bending, like the "X" shaped thin metal strips. I've seen that once, seems like it helped.

    And use metal around the screen as a case material. Brushed aluminum is both pretty and durable
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