On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have been happy with my standard screen Thinkpad T30, and use it
> for thousands of hours a year.  But it is getting worn out, and
> repair parts are vanishing.  Most particularly hard drives - it
> uses PATA drives, and those are getting rare.
>
> But I may have waited too long to replace it.  I want a 4x3 screen,
> and they don't make laptops with those anymore, just W.GA displays.
> Wrong direction.  I write 8.5x11 text documents.  I would love a 3x5
> tall screen, deploy and rotate, full page, but nobody ever made those
> for laptops.  Okay, you love widescreens, and you think I am an
> idiot, and I think you are an idiot, but let's move past that.
>

I didn't say you're an idiot, but it is true that I don't understand what is
wrong with widescreens.  What about a widescreen on a tablet?  Those allow
screen rotation.  What about a screen that is big enough to have side by
side 8.5x11 pages?

Jason
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