M6600 and M4600 are coming in Feb.

Does anyone know the reason Dell and HP moved to 1080p screens, from the 1200p ones? I tried searching around, but I can't find anything, and the fact that both companies made the jump means that there is something that forced them to this choice.

 

I think it ultimately comes down to the screen manufacturers. The 1920x1200 screens cost more to make and aren't in as much demand so any laptop vendor who wants to use them must jack up their prices. By going with 1080 screens, they can get them easier and cheaper and pass the savings onto their buyers.

As a software engineer, I definitely miss those extra 120 vertical pixel and hate this trend.

 

We're talking about 4-5000€ machines here, sold to people who work with them and need those extra 120 pixels, so I don't think the price is a problem here.

 

Absolutely!

 

Yeah, I'm with you. I'd pay more for the extra 120 pixels too. I can see why the vendors are switching over though. We're the minority (of laptop buyers) that really care about the issue.

 

Sure not only is it cheaper. You often don't know the type of upgrade part that the company puts in. All of them offer SSDs but you wouldn't know the model or maker or if you were getting the best for your money.

On the other hand its not worth it if you don't know what you're doing.

 

YOU might be willing to pay more for the panel, but the company isn't unfortunately.

 

The company is not who will pay. It's a wrong path to their bussiness... If they include in the configuration option a costly display the people that are buying those suppossed to be 'state-of-the-art' machine, will pay the premium added price differences and then, certainly more revenues for the makers...

 

Except that's not what the company believes... For example, Lenovo stated in their blog a little while ago that they were discontinuing their IPS panels in their laptops because there are many costs that you do not see, and the demand was not met with sufficient success to warrant that cost. Similarly with the aspect ratio, companies are unwilling to switch back to 16:10 due to the low demand - even if those few people are willing to pay for it.

 

Plus. It's not exactly like you can build a laptop chassis that will support both 1920x1080 and 1920x1200 sized displays. So, basically. You have to design two chassis which means that you have to manufacture and support both of them. It just doesn't make business sense especially when the display manufacturers are pushing for 1080.

I heard a while back that Apple secured a TON of 1920x1200 screens and that's the only reason that they continue offering them on their 17" MBP's. It definitely doesn't sound like it's trivial get a hold of them from the manufacturers.