Re:We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to
by chrisseaton on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:35PM
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Right - I swear I remember running CRTs at 2000+ rows in the early 2000s. Now people seem impressed with 1000, even on fairly expensive full-sized laptops?
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Re:We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to
by zozbot234 on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:42PM
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You weren't running those CRT's on laptops though. The laptops of the time had low res displays with very narrow viewing angles.
Re:We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to
by chrisseaton on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:48PM
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When I look on Amazon for desktop monitors, I also see products proudly boasting that they're 'Full HD'. And what's more we seem to have stopped at Full HD - weren't most LCD monitors Full HD like ten years ago? What's going on?
Re:We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to
by freehunter on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:14PM
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If you're not seeing 4k and 5k monitors, you're not looking hard enough. They're plentiful and pretty cheap these days.
Re:We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to
by chrisseaton on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:39PM
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> If you're not seeing 4k and 5k monitors, you're not looking hard enough.
I didn't say I wasn't seeing them, though did I?
I'm saying I still see monitors with this ancient low FHD resolution. When you search for hard drives you don't see 2005-era capacities as your first result. Why do we still see 2005-era resolutions as our first result for LCDs? And some of them cost hundreds of dollars - the same price as in 2005.