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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You might be right, if the single qualifying factor for how worthy a laptop is, was the quality of the screen.
Screen resolution can go shove itself -- I hardly do anything that requires any sort of good resolution in the slightest, and am quite contented with whatever-is-considered-reasonably-good-at-the-time.
Honestly -- I have no idea what the resolution of my laptop is, but given it is ~11 yrs old, probably not very good. 
I would definitely consider upgrading (it is a bit of an experiment for me, that is why I keep it) -- for an improved CPU and suchlike. It would help me run things faster, and multitask better... |
I'm with you. I didn't know what resolution the laptop I just got was until I just looked it up. It's 1366x768 and looks fine to me.*
I use it with a large monitor any way. I thought about the "get the absolute best so it'll last longer" philosophy when I was shopping, but along with other counterarguments, I decided that I could not predict WHAT factor was going to be important to me in 3 years, never mind 10: USB 4? Foldable display? Holographic crystal storage?
I expect when the time comes, my new laptop will still serve as a fine kid's machine, or server or something, just like most of my old machines still are.
I'll stick by the "If you need it, buy it. If you don't, don't, because it's only going to get cheaper" school.
* An aside: What's with the craze for Quad HD displays on a smartphone? Who needs that kind of resolution on a <6" portable? I wish my G3 had a normal HD screen, so the power used to drive the crazy-high-def could be put to better use.