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The iPad Mini has 4:3 screen ratio, so quite a bit larger and more useful screen than the 7" 16:9 Android tablets Same with the netbooks, weren't those often 9
by eisa01 8y ago
The iPad Mini has 4:3 screen ratio, so quite a bit larger and more useful screen than the 7" 16:9 Android tablets
Same with the netbooks, weren't those often 9" 16:9 with terrible Atom CPU and slow HD?
- philwelch 8y agoIt's kind of shitty and deceptive to measure screen size by the diagonal. You could have literally a single row of pixels 15 inches wide; does that mean you have a 15 inch display?
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoHow would you recommend we measure screen size? Length x Width I assume is the obvious one, but that’s harder to compare. I suppose you could argue comparing diagonals isn’t a good benchmark either, but it works well enough when screens tend to have similar aspect ratios, as they mostly do.
- int_19h 8y agoHxW would be easier to compare if anything. Today you have to look at the aspect ratio to even figure out what the diagonal really means (and the difference between, say, 2:3 and 16:9 is huge).
- philwelch 8y agoSquare inches is also a single dimension.
- Wowfunhappy 8y agoOoh, I really like that one! Measuring area makes a lot more sense.