From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OsnYR-00023t-0V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:04:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43E0CE066B; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24ED5E066B for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:04:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1807B1B42AC for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:04:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 1.43 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.43 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-2.422, BAYES_20=-0.74, DIET_1=0.083, FB_EXTRA_INCHES=2.442, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id txPvWrhvHkg0 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:04:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18C21B4060 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsnXh-0003SA-D9 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:04:13 +0200 Received: from 68.168.167.146 ([68.168.167.146]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:04:13 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by 68.168.167.146 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:04:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 02:04:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <201009052125.17134.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201009060816.53091.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.168.167.146 User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 8557762d-741f-4ceb-9346-cee0a036f452 X-Archives-Hash: 86d542466b3bc9c0ab462a8d6816f65c On 2010-09-06, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Grant Edwards writes: > >> For a given height, a 16:9 display is 30% wider. I want nice tall >> display (prefereably at least 9-10") without having to increase the >> width beyond what a standard "laptop" style keyboard takes up (about >> 12-13 inches). > > It is certainly true that, if the height of the display is the key > factor and hence fixed, a wider screen will add more inches (I again > assume square pixels). > > However, those extra inches and resulting extra pixels are far from > useless. I'm not saying that a wide display is useless. When it comes to desktop displays bigger is always better (in either axis). I'm saying I don't want to have to haul around a laptop thats 18" wide so that I can have a display that's tall enough to comfortably edit code on. > I believe you are selling "two up" short. No, I'm not. Two up is great on a desktop, where the extra width and weight aren't a penalty. > When I am preparing a course, I have the html up in one (emacs) > window and the resulting web page in another (firefox) window > immediately to its right. Heck I very much use and enjoy 3-up on my > large (30" 2560x1600) monitor. We're talking about laptops. How would you like hauling around a 30" wide laptop? -- Grant