On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:40:19 -0400 Robert L Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:26:17 -0400 From: Andy Stewart <andystewart@comcast.net>
I've noticed many people at work with their laptops, and they seem to have an LCD which has wide screen dimensions. This might be fine for viewing DVDs, but having not used one, I'm not sure how I'd feel using one for daily work. Its not like you can rotate the LCD on a laptop to "landscape mode" like you can with some other LCD monitors (which seems like a nice feature!).
I'm not a fan of widescreens myself. For things like text editing it's useless, and it's none too helpful for web browsing either.
How so? I've been using my girlfriend's new light-n-mobile-style laptop off and on, with a widescreen LCD with a native resolution of 1280x800. I haven't found it to be any different than my 1280x1024 or higher desktops' LCDs other than having slightly shorter web browser windows. Brian J. Conway bconway(at)alum.wpi.edu "LINUX is obsolete" - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992