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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
How many of these displays are viewed in portrait? And of course they are also mostly larger than 10", too. I'm looking at my 26" monitor as I type this - and I wouldn't get a 4:3 monitor in this size - but my browser window is approximately 4:3, leaving open a side slice of the desktop with various widgets on it. This isn't practical for a 10" screen (and of course the Xoom's 10.1" screen is smaller (has less area) than the iPad's 9.7" screen. And, as I mentioned, portrait does not work well on widescreen monitors.
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Andrew,
I know you "get it" but we are wasting our heartbeats on darrakk because it's not doing anything beyond bouncing off. Some will never get it that it's "horses for courses" and a wide screen devices delivers LESS screen area than a 4:3 of the same diagonal measure. And for most practical uses it's about height and width not landscape length with ever shrink heights on widescreen devices. I can't count the number of people I've encountered while having coffee who are using a widescreen (and always a glossy screen on top of it) laptop or netbook that really is unhappy with the glossy and the lack of screen height.
but, hey some people just refuse to read and think they prefer to react. Widescreen works fine for most large format uses once you breach the 17" level, though there are some newer 17" laptops which have mysteriously lost height. And like you mention a 16:10 20"+ display works wonderfully for multiple open windows and widgets.
Like you I also keep my browsers as well as most other "full screen" apps in about a 4:3 ratio leaving a nice area to the left to keep some other utility apps running. But it's simply unusable that way with smaller screens <= 14" and even a 15.4" can be deceptively small today when using a widescreen format. Anyone who has opened their favorite IDE would get this at once.
but I'm not gonna keep trying to explain this to that id any further, it reminds me of the times wasted in college with the "but whhhhyyyyy" types belaboring a point everyone else in the room either understands or knows enough to realize they need to look at it in more depth outside the class.
Note: One wonders what happened to Rocky now that darrakk is around.
