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by jamesbritt 5158 days ago
I've been pretty happy with my Dell laptops, running Ubuntu.

But they lost me when they dropped WUXGA. That extra 200-pixel row may not matter to folks using their machine to watch movies, but it's missing developer real estate to me.
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corin_ 5157 days ago
Ditto - and it's not just a developer thing, it's an "anything except video watching" thing.

I hate the shift towards widescreen in laptops for pretty much any activity, and it's only bearable in desktop monitors because there's no real size limit on them, so it can be adding width rather than just reducing height.

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davidw 5158 days ago
Ouch, they have? That does stink, I have one of those, and love it. Sigh...
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jamesbritt 5157 days ago
I think you have to go to 17" or something to get WUXGA from them.

It pains me that there's no good way to assemble or upgrade laptops to one's liking. It's pretty much take it or leave it.

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