Blame it on the LCD manufacturers. They've revamped their production lines for HDTV screens where the volume is. Volume is king in making screens. So the PC manufacturers have little choice but to follow. Could they pay lots more and get hi-res screens? I suppose but PCs are still a price sensitive market. High cost laptops won't sell in sufficient volume to make it worthwhile to the vendors.
This is what the vendors tell me. _______________________ Robert Rosen Senior Technical Advisor, NIAMS Sent from the portable shiny device Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:46:33 -0500 From: Rob Bell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad X Tablets with high res screen To: Lee Stewart <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: thinkpad <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Message-ID: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I've been baffled by the continue downward spiral of resolution for years now. I enjoyed the pinnacle of things with 1600x1200 Flexview screens and 1920x1200 wide screen LCDs on laptops like the T61p and Dell M6300. Since people generally don't like the lower resolutions the only thing I can think is that it is a cost/profit situation. I'm with you too, in that I never watch movies on a computer. What the heck value is there in HD resolutions that are less spacious than the prior generations of screens? Rob _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
