[Wlug] Laptop recommendations anyone?

[Brian J. Conway]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:40:19 -0400
Robert L Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>    Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:26:17 -0400
>    From: Andy Stewart <andystewart at 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

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