The Chromebook Pixel’s best feature
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The Chromebook Pixel’s best feature
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#2How big of a difference is this though? 16:10 is 3.2:2.
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#3That's a very interesting point. I remember when we had 15 and 17" LCDs back in the day that were always nearly square. Now it seems rare to find a computer screen even remotely square.
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#4Absolutely. I hated when everyone started making 16:9 monitors. The 16:10 ones weren't quite as bad, but seriously, give me some vertical pixels. Especially true for coding where it's useful to see as many lines of code on the screen at possible.
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#5How big of a difference is this though? 16:10 is 3.2:2.
Lots of different comparisons here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)#Visual_com...
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#6The 13" retina Macbook Pro is 2560 x 1600 at 229 ppi - about the same.
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#7How big of a difference is this though? 16:10 is 3.2:2.
Most modern monitors are 16:9 to match HD movie aspect ratios. If it was 16:9 it would be only 1440 pixels tall, a reduction of 15%.
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#8I agree.
I really dislike 16:9 on productivity machines. It's not wide enough for 2 windows side by side, and too short for a single window.
Even Lenovo has recently switched to 16:9 (probably from the incentives of Microsoft Windows 8), leaving Apple as the last one standing making 16:10 laptops.
16:10 is the maximum wideness I can accept, but 3:2 (i.e. 15:10) would probably be slightly better.
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#9I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I talk about aspect ratios with average consumers. Most people really do believe--probably through HDTV marketing--that wider screens are better. The lion's share of most people's time on the Internet is spent reading and scolling vertically, yet our devices are optimized for watching little sixty second movie clips at a time. Why wouldn't you want to make the 95% case more pleasurable at the expense of a few black bars on the top and bottom of your movie? Besides, most Internet videos need to be upscaled to fill the screen anyways, the detail is mostly interpolated anyhow.
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#10The 13" retina Macbook Pro is 2560 x 1600 at 229 ppi - about the same.
They use 16:10 screens. The 13" rMBP has 2560x1600 resolution while Pixel has 2560x1700, 100 pixels taller.