On 2010-11-07, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > On 11/7/2010 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2010-11-07, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >>> On 11/7/2010 8:23 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> [...] >>>> (I bought 4:3 monitors before they got replaced by cheap 16:8 >>>> screens) >>> >>> I think you'll find the new aspect ration is 16:9. >> > "aspect ration". Sheesh. > >> I knew that. My keyboard didn't. >> >> I recently bought a close-out Lenovo T500 Thinkpad from their outlet >> because current models are now 16:9 instead of the older 16:10. My >> old 4:3 Thinkpad was still going strong, but I decided I'd better get >> a 16:10 while I could -- though I'd still prefer a 4:3. >> > The thing that *really* pisses me off is that you *used* to be able to > get 1920 x 1200 15" displays, but *now* you are lucky to go above 1080 > vertical pixels even in a 17" laptop display. I don't want the > resolution of my displays dictated by the resolution of my (current) > media, yet it seems that's what's happened in the laptop market.
It's getting really hard to find high-DPI displays on laptops any more. 1600x1200 used to be available on 16" laptop displays, and that looked great. Even my old 15" thinkpad at 1400x1050 wasn't bad. > I got a Lenovo T60 a while back as a touchpad machine. Wondering about > switching that to Linux, but I haven't seen any touchpad distros in > action yet. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
