On 4/28/2015 2:11 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
2015-04-28 9:58 GMT+02:00 Russell Standish <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:59:33PM -0700, meekerdb wrote:
>
> No, I'm just saying they aren't available; and I think the in terms
> of screen real estate, a 17" 3840x2160 is actually a step down in
> functionality from a 17" 1920x1200. Sure it's got more resolution,
> but my eye isn't good enough to benefit much from the higher
> resolution. But I will miss that loss of 17% of screen area. So
> returning to the original point I think that supports my case that
> laptops have peaked in functionality and now they're just adding
> bells and whistles.
Manufacturers will be driven to approximate the 9:5 aspect ratio of
the movie screen, because for some reason, the number one use of a
laptop is as an expensive television set. Probably Pirate Bay has
something to do with this.
Unfortunately, the rest of us who'd prefer a much more square 5:4
aspect ratio will just have to put up.
In the end what he misses is the 16:10 or 5:4 aspect ratio, not the screen size per se
or resolution. It's true that now, every screens are 16:9.
I suppose there aren't much demand for it, or the demand is not as high as the
supplemental cost to manufacture them...
But I can't agree that because of that you can say no innovations are done... that's
ignoring everything else that make up a computer... a computer is not a screen...
personnaly I have three displays on my PC (two external and the laptop one), and I find
it more important and useful than a single 16:10/5:4 screen.
I too have multiple screens, but I still need to be able to use the laptop alone
sometimes. I didn't mean to say there were NO improvements in laptops...that was more
tongue in cheek. That's why I'd like to buy a laptop with faster processing. But so far
I've judged that the loss of screen real estate outweighs the advantage of faster
processor, touch screen, built in camera, blue-tooth,...
Brent
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