Yes you are correct - and your rant is appreciated ;-)
If you excuse me working in inches:
a standard 15 inch display is 12x9 inches for a screen area of 108 sq inches
a wide 15.4 inch display is 13.44 x 7.56 inches with a screen area of
101.6 sq inches
This makes a standard 15 inch display 6% bigger (by area) than a 15.4
inch widescreen display.
A wide 17 inch display is 14.8 x 8.3 giving an area of 122.8 sq inches
Feel free to correct me - my math is usually rather poor (a side effect
of having a degree in mathematics)
So I guess the debate is between a 15 inch 4x3 ratio screen and a 17
inch 16x9 ratio screen.
Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington
David Brennan wrote:
Screen sizes on laptops are a personal gripe I have with the way laptop
manufacturers are going in general. Some relevant points:
- 15.4" widescreens actually have less total screen real estate than 15" 4:3
screens did.
- Widescreens are excellent for movies but for documents and programming I
fail to see the point. I generally want lots of height when programming so I
can see more code. If you are talking a 24" widescreen then it doesn't
matter but the 15.4" widescreen is significantly shorter than the old 15"
screens.
- All LCD screens look best at their native resolution and resolutions have
been climbing steadily. So if you buy a 15.4" widescreen laptop with
1680*1050 or worse 1920x1200 then you better have very good close eyesight
or you are going to struggle to read things clearly (or turn large fonts on
and have weirdness commence). Personally I find 1024x728 an excellent
resolution for a 15" normal ratio screen but it is near impossible to buy
laptops with pixels that large these days (I had to get my HP made up
specially).
It makes no sense to me. This insistence that 15.4 wide > 15 normal and that
the higher the resolution the better is just baffling. It seems plain to me
that for many (but not all) people the opposite is true.
Rant off ;-)
David.
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Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] New Laptop
Okay since we are on the topic of new hardware, I'm in the market for a
new laptop - or rather more a "desktop replacement".
I'm considering a Dell Inspiron(TM)9300 with a 7200rpm drive. I
understand that the 9400 is due out shortly but it will probably be a
bit pricy. I can probably get work to stretch to about $3500 price
wise. I would like a 17inch display but 15.4 would be accecptable (tis
better than my 14.1 1024x768 display I am currently using).
Does anyone have any recomendations (or warnings)?
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