On 2010-09-06, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> writes: > >> For a given height, a 16:9 display is 30% wider. I want nice tall >> display (prefereably at least 9-10") without having to increase the >> width beyond what a standard "laptop" style keyboard takes up (about >> 12-13 inches). > > It is certainly true that, if the height of the display is the key > factor and hence fixed, a wider screen will add more inches (I again > assume square pixels). > > However, those extra inches and resulting extra pixels are far from > useless.
I'm not saying that a wide display is useless. When it comes to desktop displays bigger is always better (in either axis). I'm saying I don't want to have to haul around a laptop thats 18" wide so that I can have a display that's tall enough to comfortably edit code on. > I believe you are selling "two up" short. No, I'm not. Two up is great on a desktop, where the extra width and weight aren't a penalty. > When I am preparing a course, I have the html up in one (emacs) > window and the resulting web page in another (firefox) window > immediately to its right. Heck I very much use and enjoy 3-up on my > large (30" 2560x1600) monitor. We're talking about laptops. How would you like hauling around a 30" wide laptop? -- Grant
