On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:59:18 -0500, MBR wrote: > Actually, they did the transition from 1600x1200 to 1920x1080 in two steps. > I went from a 1600x1200 (UXGA) screen to a 1920x1200 (WUXGA) screen on 15" > laptops, and I agree that the increase in width wasn't a really big deal for > me. Then they dropped from 1920x1200 (WUXGA) to 1920x1080 (FHD), and I held > off for years on buying a new laptop because I really wanted the ability to > see more lines of code vertically without having to scroll. Everyone I > talked to about my desire to have more screen real estate available for > seeing more code at once treated me like a weird eccentric. Salespeople were > the absolute worst. Of course, their job is to sell what they have > available, so if what you want isn't available, they'll go out of their way > to try to convince you you don't need it. Then, when it later becomes > available, they'll take the arguments they heard from you and use them to > convince other customers that they really can't live without the newly > available feature.
What really gets me is when they treat 1920x1080 as a "feature" (because you won't have letterboxing while watching a movie). Wide screens aren't very good for photography, either. -- Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> MIT VI-3 1987 - Congrats MIT Engineers 5 straight men's hoops tourney Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
