Help me pick a CPU/Mobo

[rlk at alum.mit.edu (Robert L Krawitz)]

   Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:02:52 -0400
   From: David Kramer <david at thekramers.net>

   Kordova wrote:
   > I find the opposite to be true. I do not watch movies on my laptop, but
   > having my editor open alongside a web/documentation browser and/or
   > terminal windows can be a life saver. I view it as being analogous to a
   > real life desk. You keep the document you are working on to one side,
   > and a reference or two to the side of it.

   How do others feel about doing development on a widescreen?  To me,
   seeing more lines of code is better than more columns of code.

I don't care for wide screens one bit.  I also find more lines is
better that more columns, but pixel count is really where it's at.
Furthermore, for editing images, widescreen is all but useless -- even
a landscape (horizontal) image (3:2) isn't wide enough, when you take
into account menu bars, window decorations, and such, and a portrait
(vertical) image is all but impossible to edit that way.

   This is becoming a big deal, because it looks like a lot of the
   high end laptops are widescreen.  In particular, all of the HP
   laptops are WXGA.

These 17" WXGA screens seem like a complete waste to me.  Even 10
years ago -- when all monitors were CRT-based, and weren't
particularly sharp -- it was recommended that you run XGA resolution
on a 17" monitor (which was really 16"), but many people ran SXGA on
them.  LCD's are so much sharper -- 1600x1200 on a 15" display is very
usable -- that it's a real waste to run such low resolution on a huge
display, unless all you're interested in is watching movies.

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