Professionals need our 4:3 screens
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Professionals need our 4:3 screens
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#2first world problems
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#3iPad Pro with keyboard.
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#4I've been lamenting similar for years; nearly everything I do on a computer involves long not wide documents.
I've mostly made my peace with a 16:10 monitor as it at least allows me to have two documents side by side and this is still findable in a laptop.
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#5So, he doesn't like 16:9 or 16:10 because he doesn't use the extra space? I think I couldn't live without a wide-screen.. screen. Most of the time, I have 2 or 3 files side-by-side. I also think that the author actually has a different problem: a bad trackpad. He stated he needs to scroll a lot to view content, and a nice trackpad goes a long way with this.
It all comes down to opinion; I'd rather have a wide screen than a high screen, because I feel really agile with my huge trackpad.
> Please consider the needs of such user as I and many of my colleagues. Academics and various assorted IT professionals are not an insignificant group of users. And even if only a part of them are having the same frustrations as me when buying notebooks, this is still a large group, I’m sure. Please consider providing such people as us with a little choice in the matter of screen ratios. There is our money in this for you. Lots of money!
I don't think there's "lots of money" there. I also think the companies that make these laptops do the necessary market research and come to the conclusion that wide-screen sells better.
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#6Or is this a call for mainstream operating systems and applications to get creative (read, nice tiling or splitting by default)?
What if all browsers suported single page split view? So that the left side was your regular view, half width, and the right side was the continuation of the same page, where the left side ended.
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#74:3 and matte and a proper keyboard. These no longer exist because Apple and shiny.
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#8>When it comes right down to it, I find only these two things to be of paramount importance:
>the highest possible screen,
>the lowest possible weight.
Rotate the monitor sideways. According to the only 2 criteria that matter to him, a 16:9 monitor on its side is way better than a 4:3 monitor in any rotation.
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#94:3 and matte and a proper keyboard. These no longer exist because Apple and shiny.
If there would be a demand then it would exist (from Apple or other companies).
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#10Disagree.
I have a Microsoft Surface Pro (or Surface Book Pro - I can never remember which because I find the naming scheme ridiculous and irritating but, basically, the most powerful variant)[1], which has a screen that's much closer to 4:3 than 16:9.
I tend to like to have files open side by side. Not just code, but often documents, web pages, and sometimes spreadsheets. This does not work nearly as well on a 4:3 screen as it does on a 16:9 screen. A particular bugbear is Visual Studio, where I like the solution explorer open next to my side by side files: I can make it work on the Surface, but it's not great, and I find myself having to reduce the font size.
16:9 works much better for me, particularly when I'm on the move and am forced to only use a single screen.
[1] Off topic but I do not recommend you buy one of these due to unreliable WiFi connectivity, unreliable trackpad, a tendency to drain the battery very quickly (12 hours or so) when sleeping, and disappointing overall battery life. These would be irritating issues in a £600-1000 laptop, so they're absolutely unacceptable in a £2400 laptop.