[TriLUG] Looking for a good laptop for development

[Pete Soper via TriLUG]

Where the screen size stops being a question of convenience and 
qualitative factors is when somebody designs a GUI that creates a 
catch-22. When there's a dialog box that has the "cancel" and "OK" or 
next buttons below the bottom edge of your screen and there is no way to 
get to that to click a button, you're hosed. Yesterday I had a case 
where there where just a few pixels I could click on. Having to go use 
the desktop with it's more pixel-rich display to complete this operation 
would have been a pain. This is the point I took from Wes' advice: 768 
pixels will be like a DB25 printer connector in the not too distant 
future and many modern software tools are almost unusable already (e.g. 
TI Code Composer Studio).

-Pete

On 11/18/18 11:25 AM, John Franklin via TriLUG wrote
> I agree with Wes.  1024 x 768 was the de facto standard circa 1992, when monitors were 4:3 and XGA ruled, though it was commonly called SVGA.  Nowadays, 16:9 widens that old resolution to 1366.  Systems in the era of 4K TV shouldn’t be any smaller than 1080p, IMHO.
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