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    My quick to closed thread: "Pro" ThinkPads: useless 16:9 / "Consumer" Apples: useful 16:10. Why?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by PeeR, May 2, 2011.

  1. PeeR

    PeeR Notebook Consultant

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    Wow! You were quick to close this one!

    Why shall I zoom, if I don't have to?
    1# I don't want to waste my time.
    2# I prefer to see a page pixel by pixel exactly the way designer dreamed it.

    I know but I wanted it to make exactly ThinkPad specific because that is the so called most professional line of laptops. I hope Lenovo read Notebookreview's Lenovo forum! They should. Anyways I find it funny or strange that no one complained yet in the ThinkPad forum of Lenovo's great "advancement" of switching from 16:10 to 16:9 for their 2011 line. :D
     
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    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    So then you do the same thing again? One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting a different result.

    As to 16:9, you can grumble about the lack of screens, but this is the reality of buying a notebook in 2011. Everyone attempts to wring every dollar from Lenovo, certainly understandable in this economy, but don't understand what they give up when they do so. You can point to Apple, but they're not all 16:10 either. The 11" MacBook Air and iMacs have gone 16:9. Plus, the average selling price of an Apple notebook is significantly higher than a ThinkPad. They've got more money left over to absorb the extra cost. LCD makers give Lenovo and others the best prices on 16:9 screens. Until that changes, you probably won't see different. I don't see the 32 pixels lost on my X220 as being a big deal. I'm just jazzed to finally get a decent screen.
     
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