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I think your experience may be an outlier. Being in an University for the past 4 years, I observed that 90% of the laptops used by the students were 1366*768, a

I think your experience may be an outlier. Being in an University for the past 4 years, I observed that 90% of the laptops used by the students were 1366*768, and majority were 4GB, followed by 8GB. I don't remember anyone having any problems running the latest chrome or Firefox. I think people even managed to run things like SolidWorks or Matlab perfectly fine on those machines.

PuffinBlue 9y ago
None of the other things surprise me, but that screen resolution does a bit. It's been about 8 years since I last had a laptop without at least 1080p I think.
- bzbarsky 9y ago
  Do you buy your laptop for screen real estate or for "small and not too heavy"? Because the latter is what most people buy for, as far as I can tell.
  - PuffinBlue 9y ago
    Those things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive anymore. Something like a Dell 7270 will cost about £275 on eBay. 12 inch screen and 1080p touchscreen. Some question the wisdom of a small screen like that with scaling and whatnot but I've always found it fine.
    - bzbarsky 9y ago
      That's fair. Though I wonder how many people buy computers on ebay as opposed to dell.com or amazon.com or an actual brick-and-mortar store. That said, I suspect most people over the age of 35 or so can't read text at "normal" size on a 1080p 12inch screen, so if they want a 12 inch screen they have to either scale up their text or drop the resolution. And I believe the reported resolution in the Firefox telemetry is the one the OS thinks it's using, not the one the hardware has.
- amiga-workbench 9y ago
  1366x768 just will not die. They're usually cancerous TN panels with 20 degree viewing angles too.
- ralphc 9y ago
  For work, the laptop stays at home or you put it in a rolling case and take it into the office once a day. College, it's in a backpack and carried to class 5 times daily.

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I think your experience may be an outlier. Being in an University for the past 4 years, I observed that 90% of the laptops used by the students were 1366*768, a

by enitihas 9y ago

PuffinBlue 9y ago
None of the other things surprise me, but that screen resolution does a bit. It's been about 8 years since I last had a laptop without at least 1080p I think.
- bzbarsky 9y ago
  Do you buy your laptop for screen real estate or for "small and not too heavy"? Because the latter is what most people buy for, as far as I can tell.
  - PuffinBlue 9y ago
    Those things aren't necessarily mutually exclusive anymore. Something like a Dell 7270 will cost about £275 on eBay. 12 inch screen and 1080p touchscreen. Some question the wisdom of a small screen like that with scaling and whatnot but I've always found it fine.
    - bzbarsky 9y ago
      That's fair. Though I wonder how many people buy computers on ebay as opposed to dell.com or amazon.com or an actual brick-and-mortar store. That said, I suspect most people over the age of 35 or so can't read text at "normal" size on a 1080p 12inch screen, so if they want a 12 inch screen they have to either scale up their text or drop the resolution. And I believe the reported resolution in the Firefox telemetry is the one the OS thinks it's using, not the one the hardware has.
- amiga-workbench 9y ago
  1366x768 just will not die. They're usually cancerous TN panels with 20 degree viewing angles too.
- ralphc 9y ago
  For work, the laptop stays at home or you put it in a rolling case and take it into the office once a day. College, it's in a backpack and carried to class 5 times daily.