Actually I have an agenda. I am planning of becoming the ruler of the
world and will make everyone use the Pick operating system and 15"
screens.
I'll be more careful with my words.
Yes, Stephen, I have used a 17" in an airplane other than 1st Class.
It was tight, but doable.
(In my opinion) one must be a human pretzel to do that. And one
must have been in 'Business Class'. No way with the rest of us in
coach. Just getting it out of the bag is an exercise in really
annoying your seat neighbor in 24E. The keys are so far in and the
seat-back in front angles back,that one has to fold the laptop and
turn it up, then type at an instant-carpal-tunnel creating odd angle,
squinting at the screen at a bad angle. It's just the way it is. God
didn't invent airplanes to use computers in.
And for presentations, (In my opinion) I would use another screen or
a projector. (In my opinion) a 17" is too small for a group
presentation anyway, unless they are quite young with good eyes. If
one is presenting for 40+ executives, it needs to be really big.
My new 15" Intel Macbook has the same amount of screen real estate of
the 17" in a 15" form. more pixels... and after lugging a 17 since
2003, I'm enjoying smaller....and I plug into the same 23" Cinema at
home. (In my opinion)
I don't understand the problem with <my> opinion...you are expressing yours.
I'm just saying (In my opinion) that the 17 can't live up to being
an ideal portable over the efficiency and 'portable-ness' of the
smaller machine. It's a trade-off and I don't regret owning a 17 for
all those years, it was the best performing machine I ever owned with
the fewest failures. But I'm also very happy to go smaller. I don't
miss the 17 at all. And I was sharing the experience.
It takes a special owner to need a 17". A web designer or video
editor that travels has a lot of reasons to put up with lugging one
around. A general business person would be better off with the
smaller.
As my late dad once said: "Just because it has a handle on it doesn't
make it portable..."
sqb
Have you ever used a laptop smaller than 17" anywhere but on an
airplane? It is fine to speak from your experience, but don't speak
from your experience as if it is the be all and end all of
everyone's experience. For that matter, if you answered my question
at the beginning of this paragraph with "Yes" then perhaps you are
cheating yourself when you speak from one experience as if it is the
whole of your experience.
- Mick
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stephen barncard
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