We live in 2012. Notebooks and laptops have been around since the nineties. At first they kept pace with desktop computer screens. The evolution brought us 640×480, 800×600 and 1024×768 screens. And we were all happy, then there was out of nothing the first laptop with 1280×1024 pixels. I owned one of those laptops. It was a strange resolution, 4:3.5 but who cared, I got myself some height, and height is all that matters when you’re coding for a living. When i put my font on 9 points I was able to view 100 lines of code without scrolling. I… continue reading
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Apple releases QXGA tablet (2048×1536)
Apple’s new iPad is released with a whopping 2048×1536 resolution. Now that is a screen that I would like to see in a serious laptop. The extreme discrepancy between resolutions of the iPad 3 and laptops for professional usage is noticed in the follow up discussion on HackerNews.