On 2010-09-05, John Blinka <john.bli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all, > > My trusty Inspiron 8200 is on death's door and so I'm looking for a > new laptop - one that will run Gentoo straightforwardly, of course. > > I really liked the 1600x1200 display on this machine, which I greatly > prefer to the 1600x900 display on the more modern Inspiron 1545 I own. > Most of what I do now is through a web browser, and I can see much > more of a web page with 1200 lines of display than I can with 900. > And I dislike the massive width of the 1545 which makes it much less > portable than the old 8200. I'd love to replace my 8200 with a > machine of similar dimensions, but thinner and lighter. However, I > cannot find any machine on Dell's website with a 4x3 aspect ratio - > they all seem to be approximately 16x9 now. > > So, is 16x9 all that's available now in laptops?
Yup, and 16x9 sucks -- it's just an excuse to ship smaller, lower-resolution displays labelled with bigger numbers. Complete ripoff. -- Grant
