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Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On 2010-09-06, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> writes: |
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>>> For a given height, a 16:9 display is 30% wider. I want nice tall |
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>>> display (prefereably at least 9-10") without having to increase the |
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>>> width beyond what a standard "laptop" style keyboard takes up (about |
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>>> 12-13 inches). |
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>> It is certainly true that, if the height of the display is the key |
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>> factor and hence fixed, a wider screen will add more inches (I again |
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>> assume square pixels). |
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>> However, those extra inches and resulting extra pixels are far from |
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>> useless. |
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> I'm not saying that a wide display is useless. When it comes to |
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> desktop displays bigger is always better (in either axis). |
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> I'm saying I don't want to have to haul around a laptop thats 18" wide |
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> so that I can have a display that's tall enough to comfortably edit |
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> code on. |
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OK if you don't edit code on your laptop. |
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>> I believe you are selling "two up" short. |
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> No, I'm not. Two up is great on a desktop, where the extra width and |
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> weight aren't a penalty. |
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Laptop size and weight are indeed a penalty. But you should assume that |
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even on a laptop, common usage for some is to have 2-up either for code |
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or course development |
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>> When I am preparing a course, I have the html up in one (emacs) |
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>> window and the resulting web page in another (firefox) window |
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>> immediately to its right. Heck I very much use and enjoy 3-up on my |
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>> large (30" 2560x1600) monitor. |
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> We're talking about laptops. How would you like hauling around a 30" |
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> wide laptop? |
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The first sentence was about 2-up and hence appropriate for laptops, |
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indeed for my very own laptop that I bring to NYU every day I teach. |
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My comment about the big monitor was to show that even 3-up is useful. |
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I don't see where I suggested that 3-up would be available for laptops. |
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Summary: |
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1. Extra width for 2-up is for me *very* useful in a laptop. |
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2. Specious arguments from a salesperson occur for all choices |
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so don't seem to be a good criterion. |
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allan |
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