On 28 April 2015 at 08:25, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/27/2015 10:25 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > 2015-04-27 19:18 GMT+02:00 meekerdb <[email protected]>: > >> On 4/27/2015 1:35 AM, LizR wrote: >> >> I think it goes without saying that the whole enterprise is mainly driven >> by the profit motive (although of course there have been significant >> injections from other areas, little things like the internet!) But the >> profit motive requires that people keep buying, and that requires that >> computers (in all their forms) continue to improve, since they don't tend >> to wear out THAT quickly. >> >> >> Then why can't I buy a laptop with as big a display (1920x1200) as my >> five year old HP. >> > > Maybe because you can buy laptop with better display, like 4k > resolution... > > http://www.toshiba.com/us/p50t > > And maybe because a lot of new things are done with mobile devices... > there are phones that will have 4k display next year... > > > But having twice the resolution on a smaller screen is worthless. My HP > has a 17" screen and 1920x1200 is plenty of resolution for my old eyes. > Going to a 15.6" screen with 3840x2160 is NOT an improvement (to say > nothing having to use Windoze 8.1). If they're going to make 3840x2160 > graphics they should put them on the bigger screens, not the smaller ones!? >
I did wonder why you wanted more resolution on a small screen - given that one selling point of laptops is their small size. I guess you were just disagreeing for the sake of it, as usual. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
