[TriLUG] Looking for a good laptop for development

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

I'd say the 1600x900 is a good compromise then.

To each his own, but I find 768 vertical pixels too small to be useful even
for the modern web, much less programming.
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 4:27 PM Jimmy Dorff via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2018-11-16 at 17:00 -0500, Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote:
> > Thinkpad Caveat:
> > Don't get one with a 1366x768 res screen!  You really need at least
> > 1600x900 and 1920x1080 is best.  It's absolutely worth the extra
> > money.
>
> The 1366x768 TN screen isn't very good. I'm actually selecting the
> 1366x768 IPS screen on purpose. I find the 1080p screen too small, so I
> scale the font size 1.5x. However I mostly work with a large external
> monitor and the font scaling is too big on that.. and changing the
> setting all the time is inconvenient.
>
>
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