Am I the only one who prefs laptops before they went widescreen?
Seriously, laptops used to be easy as fuck to storage and carry around, now im carrying something bigger than a dog.
I mean dont get me wrong, i like hd widescreens for my desktop, but I think a laptop should be in 3:4 just for portability.
Anyone agree? Or am I just weird here?
bummp
you're not alone OP. I hate 16:9 because there isn't enough vertical space and it's too wide for a laptop. I wish the standard was 16:10
>16:10
I still have an older screen that has 16:10. I love it. Still, I just miss laptops when the screen didnt make them huge...Is there any laptops out there that can run windows 7 or 10 without being old as fuck?
I have no idea. sorry
I always am reminded of this when using my old x60
It has a 12 inch screen and manages to be so much smaller than widescreen laptops in the same category
too sad that the battery life is shit even with a new battery and that its core2duo shits the bed on almost anything
16:9 should be illegal.
Apple still uses 16:10 displays.
But they're glossy cancer.
I'm peeing this from a chinkpad T62
3:2 laptops are coming into fashion now, it's a step back in the right direction
w500, x210?
Does modern laptops with a good, or at least half decent keyboard even exist anymore?
There was the thinkpad 25th annisevery one that isn't chiclet at least. The only other laptops I could find that didn't have chiclets were alienwares so I ended up just getting a laptop with a shitty keyboard last time I bought one.
Wide-screen is superior for having two applications opened side by side which I do a lot
X200 should run Win7 fine. It's a Core2Duo and to be honest, it runs Debian buttery smooth. I only work in Vim and Zathura though (translation), so it's not a huge load. With the shit Windows demands nowadays, I'm not sure if it's feasible for that purpose, though.
>1280x800
stop disregarding a certain type of keyboard because its appearance like a mac user's habits would and try out a board anyway
Would be useful for a species that can multitask.
>1400x1050 screens
master race
(how do i fix dead pixel lines, rip me)
Working with spreadsheets kind of sucked when everything was 4:3. I remember I kept having to side-scroll all the time in Excel and 16:10 eliminated a lot of that, often without the need to do more vertical scrolling (I went from 1400x1050 to 1680x1050, which meant I had more horizontal pixels without sacrificing vertical ones, and this was at a time where almost nothing was UXGA or QXGA). Then we stepped back with 16:9, where almost every common resolution except 1600x900 saw a downgrade.
Hopefully, before long, everything will be 3:2, this is pretty much the ideal ratio.
widescreen is way cheaper to produce now and better for movies.
Thats soooo sexy
i love it, its just a shame that the screen was damaged in shipping
what did it cost ya? what are the specs?
pic sadly related...
its a pretty baller laptop for 2004 though, Athlon 64 3000+, 1280mb of ram (i know thats retarded), radeon 9700 pro mobile
its just that its biggest thing is the SXGA+ 1400x1050 screen and of course it was broken in transit
60 bucks from a guy on facebook, its not a bad price for something like this, theyre fairly rare
specs
bump
A little too thick for my taste