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New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by grzes »

i think 1366x768 resolution on 15.6 inch screen is perfect in terms of UI elements size. like its a sweet spot between to small and too large with enought horizontal area.

physical width of such 15.6 inch screen is 34.53 cm so it gives you 0,025285037 cm per pixel.

so my "perfect" laptop would have 15.6 inch screen and 16:10 aspect ratio. i would double the resolution in order to avoid fractional scaling and use 200% scaling so final resolution would be 2732x1708 - anyone can recommend something close to that on the market?

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by rwmj »

amalantony06 wrote: post #51
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of VMs. VMs don't need much CPU time but oh boy do they need the RAM.

What sort of a use case requires you to run "lots of VMs"? What nature of development do you do?

Some of the software I write must work on various different Linux releases (with different kernels), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku and Windows. This is realistically only possible because I have all these running in different VMs.

I'd like to add macOS to the mix but it's something of a pain to virtualize. I'm aware of hackintoshes but there seem to be a bunch of gotchas and it seems you can never upgrade them.

I also have some VMs where I need decent security guarantees and confinement, such as running different web services.

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by floatboth »

pqb wrote: post #19

> 13.0 | 16:10 | 2K | 450nits | 100% sRGB | Optional Touch > Ultra-narrow bezel | 85% STB It is very nice move from the Dell [0], and also now Lenovo to bring 16:10 display in laptops. It was always for me strange decision, when laptop manufactures decided to use 16:9 displays for all, even for pricey, high-end models. I am highly enthusiastic to see 16:10 displays back after ten years, when numerous notebooks had 15…

3:2 is the best. The Microsoft Surface line used 3:2 a lot (always?), and the Google Pixelbook. 16:10 is still better than 16:9, but I want more things to be 3:2.

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by floatboth »

sidpatil wrote: post #115
pqb wrote: post #60

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Oh c'mon, many laptops in last decade had 1366x768 display and many people still downscale theirs 1920x1080 into 1600x900 or 1440x810, because they have problems to comfortable see and read text from screen :) Dell D-series are at least twelve years old [0] (example model with 16:10 display [1]). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude#Latitude_D8x0_se... [1]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitu…

It kills me when I see people downscale their displays to be able to read their text. But I blame the OS developers for this: the display settings should allow you to scale the graphical elements according to your preference.

Windows 10 is good at this, you can set 125% or 150% UI scale no problem.

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by jbverschoor »

pqb wrote: post #60
jbverschoor wrote: post #42

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It was never meant for work..

Oh c'mon, many laptops in last decade had 1366x768 display and many people still downscale theirs 1920x1080 into 1600x900 or 1440x810, because they have problems to comfortable see and read text from screen :) Dell D-series are at least twelve years old [0] (example model with 16:10 display [1]). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude#Latitude_D8x0_se... [1]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Dell-Latitu…

The 16:9 is for videos

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by floatboth »

pkamb wrote: post #109

ThinkPad's announcement of 16:9 displays in 2009: --- > I stated in my last post that the industry is going to go through yet another display ratio change over the next year or so. > For years we've had 4:3 “square” displays. These have all but disappeared from the market as the current standard is 16:10 “wide.” > The industry is about to move yet again to true 16:9 wide. This means that the ratio of your PC display…

Huh, LCD manufacturers (at least in 2009) made TV and laptop displays together? Interesting..

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by floatboth »

flohofwoe wrote: post #21
pmontra wrote: post #12

I'm glad to see a resurgence of 16:10 screens. I'm waiting to see bezels shrink to the point I'll have a nearly 15" 16:10 screen in a 14" laptop body, not to have a number pad.

As a programmer I would really like to have more choices of 3:2 or even 4:3 aspect ratio laptops (because of the added vertical space, which is really much more valuable when working mostly with text on fairly small displays). For 3:2 I'm only aware of the MS Surface and Huaewei MateBook laptops, and Thinkpads were probably the last 4:3 laptops(?).

The Google Pixelbook is 3:2 also, it's pretty great except for the big-ass bezels.

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by heelix »

pkamb wrote: post #100
bityard wrote: post #65

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What have we lost? I have _always_ preferred a wider screen to a taller one because it means I can fit more xterms side-by-side.

ThinkPad T61 models changed from 1400x1050 (SXGA+) to 1440x900 (WXGA+) when they went widescreen. They literally just lopped off 150 vertical pixels. There wasn’t some corresponding gain in horizontal space. You could fit the same number of xterms side-by-side on either laptop.

I had one of the lovely T61s models that did 1600x1200. That machine had a long, long lifespan for a 3+g memory it could support. Miss the 4:3

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by growt »

bityard wrote: post #65
regularfry wrote: post #31

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I was doing some work on an old 4:3 IBM X41 last weekend. Reminded me what we've lost.

What have we lost? I have _always_ preferred a wider screen to a taller one because it means I can fit more xterms side-by-side.

But it's not one or the other. The screen is just as wide, but taller. So your xterms can be just as wide but you can fit more rows into them.

Re: New Leaks of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano

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Post by chaosharmonic »

jhatax wrote: post #67

When Apple first eliminated all but two (or four) USB-C ports, there was a ton of vitriol towards Apple on HN. In the years since Apple’s move, both Dell and IBM have adopted Apple’s playbook and are in the process of eliminating ports, and there are no comments on how everyone will need dongles to connect peripherals or get their work done. - What has changed in our use of laptops over the last 12-months that dongle…

For one thing, USB itself is moving entirely to Type-C as of v4.
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