laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

fred smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Thu Jan 3 18:39:52 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:58:55AM -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:41:06 -0600 Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Dale Dellutri <daledellutri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra
> > > <maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I will be in the market for a laptop pretty soon, and would like to
> > >> find a laptop with 1200 vertical resolution (at the very least). I
> > >> looked around a couple of websites (Dell, Toshiba, Thinkpad) some but
> > >> was unable to spot much (did not look at everything). Are these
> > >> available anymore? What would you recommend?
> > >
> > > It's pretty easy to google this:
> > >   laptop 1920x1200
> > > For example, this result
> > >   http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/38302133
> > > laments the unavailability of 1920x1200 and mentions
> > > two previously produced laptops with that resolution.
> > > I'm sure you could still get them refurbished.
> > 
> > Unless it also has a really large screen I didn't like my last
> > workstation laptop that had 1900x1200 resolution. Everything was tiny
> > and my eyes aren't that old yet :)
> 
> I guess the story is that there is no high-vertical resolution
> available yet. Confirms what I have also found.
> 
> IMO, high vertical resolutions are very useful for reading documents and
> editing and bug-fixing code. Not having them anymore is a real
> disappointment.

the closest I've seen to that is the standalone monitor I have at
home, 2048x1152 which is pretty unusual, but still not what you wanted.

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