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*aspect ratio Sorry, had to say it. Has the world really moved on from 16:9? I only buy used thinkpads and am t420 and t470s deep into the 16:9 era.
by 7speter 3y ago
*aspect ratio
Sorry, had to say it. Has the world really moved on from 16:9? I only buy used thinkpads and am t420 and t470s deep into the 16:9 era.
- jwells89 3y agoMost of the bigger laptop manufacturers are now on 16:10 (Lenovo, Dell, ASUS) or even 5:4 or 3:2 (HP Dragonfly, MS Surface, Framework 13). Apple has been 16:10 since the early 2000s, only having made one 16:9 model (11” MBA). 16:9 is mainly hanging on in small/niche/budget models/manufacturers.
- 7speter 3y agoThe t400 I have is 16:10
- jwells89 3y agoYep, a lot of laptops were 16:10 up through the mid-late 2000s, especially workstation and business laptops. By 2010 or so that’d given way to the HD marketing craze that plagued laptops with those terrible 1366x768 panels that doggedly persisted until just a 3-4 years ago. In the case of the ThinkPad T-series, that happened when the T420 came out in early 2011.
- matt_heimer 3y agoDevelopers and many other content creators have. I held onto a 4:3 aspect ratio laptop as long as I could when 16:9 was becoming a thing. I'm typing this on a 16:10 (2560 x 1600) ThinkBook. 3:2 (2256 x 1504) is also common for smaller laptops like the Framework 13. It might not seem like much but the additional vertical space make development easier. The only time I'll accept something wider than 16:10 is an ultrawide external monitor that ends up functioning as two side by side monitors. For primarly gaming or media consumption devices I'm still fine with 16:9.