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I use a 13" MBA as a development machine and find the screen good for the work I do. (Admittedly not anything too graphically intensive.) I do find the 1440x90
by mschaef 9y ago
I use a 13" MBA as a development machine and find the screen good for the work I do. (Admittedly not anything too graphically intensive.)
I do find the 1440x900 a useful improvement over 1280x800, in that the 1440px width allows for 2 side-by-side 80 column text views (assuming 8px character cells and giving some room for controls, etc.)
- sedachv 9y agoThat is a huge font. With X11 fixed 6x10 or 6x13 font you get two 80-column screens at 1024, and three at 1440. At 74 columns you can get three screens on 1366 displays.
- mschaef 9y agoI don't think my eyesight is quite that good, and I've never been impressed with the X11 fixed fonts (particularly at that size.) FWIW, I've used 8px as a benchmark for character cell width for years. The original PC's I used were CGA machines with 640x200 displays. 80 column text implied 8px character cells. (Even then, MDA's 9x14 character cells were much higher quality... I think the reason 8px works better these days is due to anti-aliasing, etc.)