Johan Kullstam put forth on 12/29/2010 11:25 PM: > Good for you. My gripe is that one can no longer choose. It's > shortscreen or nothing. > > I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14" 1440x1050 and it rocked. It > weighed only 4.5 lbs even with cd drive. For me, it was an optimal size > and weight. The current offerings are all inferior - they are heavier, > have less vertical screen dimension and worse resolution.
You're a member of a super-minority Johan. The majority of the marketplace wants wide screen, which is why you're finding little or nothing else but widescreen. Even the little toy netbook computers all have widescreen LCDs. That's very telling about the market. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d1c1f92.2010...@hardwarefreak.com
