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Lenovo design chief David Hill is asking for feedback about an up-top-date classic Thinkpad
"Imagine a blue enter key, 7 row classic keyboard, 16:10 aspect ratio screen, multi-color ThinkPad logo, dedicated volume controls, rubberized paint, exposed screws, lots of status LED's, and more", he writes, asking whether this would be the ThinkPad of choice for the design connoisseur, or too old school?
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Would You Buy an Up-To-Date Classic Thinkpad?
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(Score: 5, Informative) by iwoloschin on Monday June 29 2015, @12:30AM
Why would one want a 16:10 screen instead of 16:9 ?
Because you get more vertical pixels? I can't stand 16:9 screens, too much scrolling.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by kaszz on Monday June 29 2015, @12:46AM
Why not 4:3 then?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday June 29 2015, @01:42AM
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 29 2015, @02:26AM
Whatever is economically sound.
1920 x 1440 ?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @02:35AM
It's nice to have the sides open for the edges of other windows, icons, etc. 16:10 seems better than 4:3 to me. But I honestly do think 16:9 is too wide.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday June 29 2015, @05:17AM
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @08:49AM
Too wide? 16:9 should be called low-screen rather than wide-screen. 16:9 screens are not any wider, the screen dictates the laptop size, and with 16:9 there's still barely room for a cramped keyboard.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday June 29 2015, @05:11PM
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @03:30AM
Depends on what you do with it. If you program, vertical space is better. If you are accustomed to many terminals open handling a cluster, then more horizontal space to fit in an extra terminal is much better.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 29 2015, @11:35AM
If you program, vertical space is better
Big annoyance in my life is I have some high res 4:3 and some crappy new 16:9 or whatever monitors so on some emacs I need control-X-2 and on some emacs I need control-X-3 and it never fails that my reflex is "wrong".
What I should really do is write some elisp to sniff the window size and swap around if necessary such that c-x-2 means "two windows the 'right' way" not split vertically.
In my infinite spare time.
Also once you give up on 80 columns (for me that was about 2013) then horizontal space isn't so bad anymore when you're programming. It depends on the language, in java aka "the cobol of the new generation" every identifier is like 60 characters long being hyperverbose language so a 200 character wise screen is just about right for a=b+c type complexity. On the other hand if you write a 200 character long regex in perl or entire functions in clojure in 200 characters then you'll go insane. And there's pythonic whitespace weirdness but F python I haven't lowered myself to using it yet, hoping it'll blow over before I have to.