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I wish laptops would go back to 4:3 aspect ratio. The trend for widescreen leaves me wanting for more vertical space. 800px or 900px vertical is too short and
by jim_h 16y ago
I wish laptops would go back to 4:3 aspect ratio. The trend for widescreen leaves me wanting for more vertical space. 800px or 900px vertical is too short and requires more scrolling. Yet, it's not wide enough to really fit 2 application windows side by side.
It's only really good for movies. Certainly not good for web browsing unless you want to read long sentences across the screen.
- frou_dh 16y agoI'm glad MBP17 is wide. 1920x1200, ticks all the boxes. No, it's not too big or heavy, remember that the MBP15 is 15.4". All Mac users should also do themselves a favour and set their Dock to auto-hide.
- dekz 16y agoI have mine autohide on the left hand side. Only use the doc to show running applications, use quicksilver to launch.
- Yaggo 16y agoI always keep the Dock hidden, even on my 2560x1440 iMac. I launch applications from Spotlight¹ and switch between them by +tab. About the widescreen aspect ratio – I'm fine with it. Feels more natural. A 4:3 screen looks like a square. I don't have square vision. Then again, it's true that less than 800 pixels of vertical space feels somewhat cramped, and purely for web browsing / reading, 4:3 makes sense, and 3:4 would make even more sense. Personally I do much more and the widescreen is better all-around compromise. Two fingers + inertia makes scrolling pretty enjoyable. ¹) Quick enough on SSD'd machines, otherwise a bit slow. Luckily I rarely launch apps. I just keep tons of stuff running in different Spaces.