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[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-11-07, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> On 11/7/2010 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2010-11-07, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/7/2010 8:23 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> (I bought 4:3 monitors before they got replaced by cheap 16:8
>>>> screens)
>>>
>>> I think you'll find the new aspect ration is 16:9.
>> 
> "aspect ration". Sheesh.
>
>> I knew that.  My keyboard didn't.
>> 
>> I recently bought a close-out Lenovo T500 Thinkpad from their outlet
>> because current models are now 16:9 instead of the older 16:10.  My
>> old 4:3 Thinkpad was still going strong, but I decided I'd better get
>> a 16:10 while I could -- though I'd still prefer a 4:3.
>> 
> The thing that *really* pisses me off is that you *used* to be able to
> get 1920 x 1200 15" displays, but *now* you are lucky to go above 1080
> vertical pixels even in a 17" laptop display. I don't want the
> resolution of my displays dictated by the resolution of my (current)
> media, yet it seems that's what's happened in the laptop market.

It's getting really hard to find high-DPI displays on laptops any
more.  1600x1200 used to be available on 16" laptop displays, and that
looked great.  Even my old 15" thinkpad at 1400x1050 wasn't bad.

> I got a Lenovo T60 a while back as a touchpad machine. Wondering about
> switching that to Linux, but I haven't seen any touchpad distros in
> action yet.

-- 
Grant