Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by pmontra on Saturday May 14, 2016 @05:35AM (#11695302)

4:3 screens: yes, but on laptops. Given an equally wide laptop 4:3 gives much more space to work on. I wonder if there would be space for large touchpads but the Thinkpad/stick fans won't care. My personal sweetspot on laptops was 16:10.

For standalone monitors, nobody was making screens as wide (in cm) as the ones we have now, at a reasonable price. You could have two 4:3 monitors side by side which is 8:3 or 16:6, worse than 16:9 for the same width.

I add: 15" laptops without numberpads (Macs don't count, I don't like OSX and their keyboards and the buttonless touchpad)

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by paol on Saturday May 14, 2016 @06:10AM (#11695404)

My sweet spot for laptops is 4:3 @ 14in, but 16:10 @ 15.6in is a reasonable choice as well.

16:9 on the other hand has no place in anything but very large desktop monitors (say 27in and above). Whenever I have to use someone's 13in notebook - inevitably 16:9, even expensive ones - it makes me want to scream. It's like peering through a mailbox slot.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by r00fus on Sunday May 15, 2016 @12:38AM (#11699456)

One of the great things about Mac laptops... The default 16:10 everywhere (with the exception of the mba11").

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