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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.
by 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 agoDo 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 agoThose 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 agoThat'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 ago1366x768 just will not die. They're usually cancerous TN panels with 20 degree viewing angles too.
- ralphc 9y agoFor 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.