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Well, if this is that much valuable, the hardware manufacturers wouldn't push shorter screens... And the Windows taskbar wouldn't take that much space! :D I re

• blogimus 15y ago
  Consider tablets and desktops versus notebooks and smartphones. Biggest impact is on notebooks whose vertical real estate is at a premium. Second are smartphone because of their form factor. As far as tablets and desktops: You can rotate your tablet and you can use a big monitor (or rotate that too if supported).
• sp332 15y ago
  Manufacturers make them shorter because they are sold on the size of the diagonal. A 4:3 screen with a 24" diagonal is 14.4"x19.2" = 276.5 square inches. A 16:9 screen with the same diagonal is only 11.7"x20.8" = 243.4 square inches. Even if the retail price changes proportionately to the area, manufacturers come out ahead because each manufacturing defect only affects a 240 sq. in. product instead of a 280 sq. in. product. Smaller screens mean less waste, which means cheaper (more popular) product and higher margins.