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I've already bought one in my head :)

by gouranga 14y ago

duck 14y ago
Is appears the resolution is the same as the x220 at 1366x768. Are you planning on using it for dev work?
- andrewcooke 14y ago
  i develop fine on mine. i really think this is just personal preference / acculturation - for years i also used a 17" monitor on my desktop. while i now have 1900x1200 there i don't feel more productive for it - i just don't jump between desktops like i used to (in fact, i just realised i can't remember what the keyboard shortcuts are for doing so!). in particular, with intellij idea, i feel like i have hit a sweet spot matching the layout to the screen - i have the project tree / leiningen / find window on the left, source in the middle, and run / repl / debug on the right. it works really well in the x220 window shape. that doesn't mean i don't wish the screen were bigger / squarer. i preferred my old x60 and i am very concerned about the keyboard - the keys are the best thing by far on this.
- gouranga 14y ago
  Yes definitely. Why does it sound like you think I'm insane? I'm sitting in front of a T61 at the moment at 1280x800 and I prefer it to my 2x 22" 1600x1200 screens in the office (one of which is permanently turned off). I have VS2010, SQL2008 Mgmt studio, Word, Excel, 2 different browsers, Outlook and 3 RDP connections open. It's fine.
  - tseabrooks 14y ago
    I have a hard time working on something thats less than 2560x1440. I use a dell 30" @ 2560x1600 at the office with my macbook screen (1680x1050) as my secondary display. At home I hook the macbook up to my imac display (2560x1440) and use that with my macbook as my secondary display.
    - jasonkester 14y ago
      Here's a tip for dealing with a small dev machine: Try sitting at a table in a sand-floored bar with a good thatch roof to keep light levels down, but a good view of the beach and the sea. Tonsai beach in Thailand is my personal preference, but you can probably make it work at any little beach community with good wifi and cheap bungalows to rent. Notice how owning a 3 pound machine that you can fit comfortably into a tiny backpack suddenly seems like a much better idea. You might even wonder why you need to keep an apartment back home capable of containing a 30" monitor. For the same rent payments, you could just stay here indefinitely. Naturally, if you don't have a beach to use it from, the tiny road machine makes somewhat less sense. Good thing that, as developers, we're in of of the few professions where we get to choose whether to add that beach to our dev setup.

I've already bought one in my head :)

duck 14y ago

Is appears the resolution is the same as the x220 at 1366x768. Are you planning on using it for dev work?

andrewcooke 14y ago
i develop fine on mine. i really think this is just personal preference / acculturation - for years i also used a 17" monitor on my desktop. while i now have 1900x1200 there i don't feel more productive for it - i just don't jump between desktops like i used to (in fact, i just realised i can't remember what the keyboard shortcuts are for doing so!). in particular, with intellij idea, i feel like i have hit a sweet spot matching the layout to the screen - i have the project tree / leiningen / find window on the left, source in the middle, and run / repl / debug on the right. it works really well in the x220 window shape. that doesn't mean i don't wish the screen were bigger / squarer. i preferred my old x60 and i am very concerned about the keyboard - the keys are the best thing by far on this.
gouranga 14y ago
Yes definitely. Why does it sound like you think I'm insane? I'm sitting in front of a T61 at the moment at 1280x800 and I prefer it to my 2x 22" 1600x1200 screens in the office (one of which is permanently turned off). I have VS2010, SQL2008 Mgmt studio, Word, Excel, 2 different browsers, Outlook and 3 RDP connections open. It's fine.
- tseabrooks 14y ago
  I have a hard time working on something thats less than 2560x1440. I use a dell 30" @ 2560x1600 at the office with my macbook screen (1680x1050) as my secondary display. At home I hook the macbook up to my imac display (2560x1440) and use that with my macbook as my secondary display.
  - jasonkester 14y ago
    Here's a tip for dealing with a small dev machine: Try sitting at a table in a sand-floored bar with a good thatch roof to keep light levels down, but a good view of the beach and the sea. Tonsai beach in Thailand is my personal preference, but you can probably make it work at any little beach community with good wifi and cheap bungalows to rent. Notice how owning a 3 pound machine that you can fit comfortably into a tiny backpack suddenly seems like a much better idea. You might even wonder why you need to keep an apartment back home capable of containing a 30" monitor. For the same rent payments, you could just stay here indefinitely. Naturally, if you don't have a beach to use it from, the tiny road machine makes somewhat less sense. Good thing that, as developers, we're in of of the few professions where we get to choose whether to add that beach to our dev setup.