On 11/7/2010 10:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-11-07, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >> On 11/7/2010 8:23 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> [...] >>> (I bought 4:3 monitors before they got replaced by cheap 16:8 >>> screens) >> >> I think you'll find the new aspect ration is 16:9. > "aspect ration". Sheesh.
> I knew that. My keyboard didn't. > > I recently bought a close-out Lenovo T500 Thinkpad from their outlet > because current models are now 16:9 instead of the older 16:10. My > old 4:3 Thinkpad was still going strong, but I decided I'd better get > a 16:10 while I could -- though I'd still prefer a 4:3. > The thing that *really* pisses me off is that you *used* to be able to get 1920 x 1200 15" displays, but *now* you are lucky to go above 1080 vertical pixels even in a 17" laptop display. I don't want the resolution of my displays dictated by the resolution of my (current) media, yet it seems that's what's happened in the laptop market. I got a Lenovo T60 a while back as a touchpad machine. Wondering about switching that to Linux, but I haven't seen any touchpad distros in action yet. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
