[hackety]

1) it's thin and pretty

2) self-contained. Only a power cable is required. Makes a neat desk.

3) it's completely silent (but then again so is a mac mini)

4) the higher-end models have an actual graphics card (mac mini has very bad graphics)

[teh_klev]

The "x 1080" in the display dimensions make me sad. It's a shame this is becoming the norm on medium sized panels and not 1920x1200.

[randallsquared]

It's "becoming" the norm? That was happening 6-8 years ago. Now 1080p has been the norm for something like two upgrade cycles, and anyone who currently cares about resolution beyond that is looking at 1440p or more.

[hollerith]

Grandparent means he is sad that the 16:9 aspect ratio is becoming the norm. He prefers 16:10.

[randallsquared]

Right, and that transition happened last decade, not this one... Perhaps I was too specific with the 1080p mention.

[mwfunk]

There was certainly a transition from 5:4 to widescreen displays in the 2000s, with nearly everyone but Apple opting for 16:9. I don't recall any mass adoption of 16:10 followed by a mass migration to 16:9 in the last decade, which is what you're stating happened.

If Apple is moving from 16:10 to 16:9, then that would indeed be a very recent development. If this is the case, it would be kind of sad to me (I prefer a bit more vertical space), but understandable given the economics of the panel business.

[randallsquared]

> I don't recall any mass adoption of 16:10 followed by a mass migration to 16:9 in the last decade, which is what you're stating happened.

I don't quite agree with what you're stating I'm stating. (I realize that this has gone on way longer than the original reply warranted, but...)

User teh_klev said that they were sad that 1080p "was becoming" the norm on medium sized panels, and that 1920x1200 wasn't becoming the norm, instead.

I replied that the transition to 1080p had already occurred, some time ago. I don't believe that either teh_klev or I implied that there was mass adoption of 1920x1200 (16:10), only that teh_klev would have preferred that there have been such a mass adoption, and I was suggesting that that preference (which I share, though I didn't mention it[1]) became moot last decade.

[1] though it turns out that if the screen is large enough and the resolution high enough, I no longer care about the precise aspect ratio...

[hackety]

1080p is fine for 21". (Until they go retina). Mind you, the 27" has 1440p.

[projct]

I think the extra 180 pixels of vertical resolution is what he's worried about. I am too, that little bit helps a lot, even with the dock hidden and off to the side of the screen.