[JCharante]

> A more niche gripe is that 16:9 is the wrong aspect ratio for a professional laptop.

What aspect ratio is more fitting for a professional laptop? 4:3?

[aschampion]

16:10 is great, although I did briefly trial run a Surface Book 2 and loved the 3:2 screen, as well as the rest of the hardware. Only decided against it because of the amount of compromises and maintenance when running Linux on it.

[anuragsoni]

I'm hoping more device start offering 3:2 screens now. I was interested in the surface line too but decided against it for the same reasons as you. I ordered Huawei's Matebook X pro yesterday which was the only other laptop I saw which offers a nice 3:2 display. I'm hoping everything will work out of the box (this laptop uses intel wireless unlike the marvell chip on the surface) with any recent distro.

Sidenote: I've also read about decent openbsd support for the older version of this laptop. [1]

[1] https://jcs.org/2017/07/14/matebook

[mixmastamyk]

Anything taller than 16:9. Unless you like scrolling, or use the professional developer laptop for watching movies all day.

[tjr225]

Probably referring to 16:10 - which I also love. Another victim of the endless march towards cost cutting & manufacturing standardization.

[awesomepeter]

Yep, or 16:10.