New Latitude and Precision's

I thought that this was a ''supply'' and ''demand'' game - and that the demand for something leads to the construction and the production of ot. But it seems that sometimes is ''supply'' and ''supply''. Nobody wants 16:9 laptops - but they moved to this format anyway. And now, because the asian lcd manifacturers operate and realize profit only on large scale production and purcaces - they are not interested on producing 16:10 anymore. I guess, this is one of the downsides of the globalization and the cheap electronics.

 

Yeah, I heard it before... But this transitional phase would actually be a good time to test this theory. If one notebook manufacture with a little more courage somehow manage to keep 16:10 and sell better than its competitors, I would love to see everyone coming back to 16:10 in 2011

Listening "Refuse/Resist", Sepultura, right now

 

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They won't make them anymore is the notebook vendors main excuse for switching.....standards and formats is another....how many 14 and 15.6" TV's do you see for sale in shops.
The notebook manufacturers made the mistake themselves of giving price as the reason originally....can't see how it would have changed, making 16:10 is no harder for the screen makers than producing silly one off sizes for the likes of Sony...pretty sure Sony don't make their own unless someone can correct me.[eg 15.5" 16:9]

 

Apparently Sony and Samsung have a joint venture somewhere in Europe that manufactures screens http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-LCD although by the sounds of it Sony are going to jump into bed with Sharp instead.And it mainly seems to relate to HDTV's.

Still, it's an example of being able to put in your notebooks whatever you want......the "we can't do it because they made us" is still a lamo BS excuse imo.

Dell still sell desktop monitors in 4:3,16:10 and 16:9, they're still selling new 17" 16:10 and 13.3, 12.1, notebooks, if they are not made anymore, where are they getting them from now....dell is a disciple of the just in time inventory management, there's no way on earth they're going to stock years of screens.

 

The 16:9 screens have smaller areas so they use less material. For example, 16:9 @ 15.6" is 103.96 square inches whereas 16:10 @ 15.4" is 106.59 square inches.

John

 

But that's okay, because, you know, less is more! Who needs a screen to read a good text with attention page per page? The order now is to read short empty phrases spread in multiple open windows at the same time you watch your preferred streaming gossip video and chat about how is going the divorce of Angelina and Brad... The future is flat

 

yes, I'm well aware of the areal difference, it may also work out for some sizes that they get another 2 screens out of a blank sheet due to the out of square differences compared to the dimensions of the blanks they laser cut from.
Who actually cares when they're paying two or three times as much for a top end business notebook or workstation....I certainly don't

Lol @ Cherude's comments

The Precision M2400 and M4400 has taken a large dive in price [equivalent of 412.00 usd]]on the asia pacific sites in the last week, maybe new models are not so far away now.

 

The new models will probably be released at the CEBIT show in Hanover - the first week of march.

 

Sure did...I just cancelled my m6500 order until it becomes avail...rep was saying first of March or so....I work off a usb tethered vm so I want that ...

 

I have been looking at the the HP 8440w and i see that it has a core i7 720 and 820 in a 14 inch workstation!! The quadro card is a rebanged though, i hope dell has precision workstation like this, talking about a 14 inch one though, switchable graphics and pirvacy screen like the latitude E6400 and man i would be happy, lenovo said they were going to have switchable graphics and that didn't happen, its coming out the technology is becoming an adult. I would really like to see something similar to the M11x as long as its not 16:9 man i got rid of my qosmio x505 cause of that.