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Re:AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs by llampx on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @04:00AM (#21978242)
Popularity has nothing to do with why its more popular. The industry decided as a whole to go with 16:9 screens due to them costing less, and consumers had no choice. Similar to how most flagship smartphones have lost their headphone jacks even though no customer is running to buy a phone just because it doesn't have a headphone jack.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs by mschuster91 on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @08:38AM (#21979770)
But consumers do run for ever thinner devices, and a 3.5mm jack will always make the device at least 4mm high (probably more to account for front display and backside assembly).
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Re:AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs by mixmastamyk on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @01:57PM (#21983305)
And when they got too thin and started bending in pockets folks complained until they got sturdier and thicker again.
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