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Sure they can make mistakes... but the existence of multiple numpad-containing laptops, from multiple vendors, over many years is an existence proof of a prefer
by gojomo 13y ago
Sure they can make mistakes... but the existence of multiple numpad-containing laptops, from multiple vendors, over many years is an existence proof of a preference among an important customer group (in addition to your personal testimony).
Even those crappy short screens: since businesses are buying them in preference to alternatives, they must find something about the cost and form acceptable. For business-focused machines, used by non-technical employees in brief spurts with a single full-screen app to get specific things done, a small screen may be preferable! HN commenters and coder/designer bloggers are not the customer.
- Zak 13y agoEven those crappy short screens: since businesses are buying them in preference to alternatives What alternatives? There are no business laptops with full screens on the market. Lenovo offered 4:3 and 16:10 models that were otherwise comparable for a very short period of time. Buyers, from what I remember of the period, did not tend to prefer the 16:10 models. I'm not sure if anybody else had a comparable overlap. The switch from 16:10 to 16:9 was even more abrupt.