Which is why we started by widening that to 1920x1200 (16:10). Which I think many of us were perfectly happy with. You didn't lose any vertical pixels, but gain

Which is why we started by widening that to 1920x1200 (16:10). Which I think many of us were perfectly happy with. You didn't lose any vertical pixels, but gained horizontal pixels. Then all PC laptop manufacturers seemingly conspired to deny us the option to purchase anything, at any price point, with >1080 vertical pixels. (Thankfully Apple didn't follow this trend at the time.) Of course now with all the 4k/5k/high-DPI stuff we might finally be moving past that, but I haven't gone PC laptop shopping in a long time.