Surface Laptop 4

Re:Surface Laptop 4 by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:00PM (#26797343)

If only they hadn't done away with 4:3:

    >>> 4/3
    1.3333333333333333
    
    >>> 3/2
    1.5
    
    >>> 16/10
    1.6
    
    >>> 16/9
    1.7777777777777777

I use an external portrait monitor for this reason, and it is quite luxurious. So much less scrolling.

Also, if one is complaining about the dock, move it to the side.

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by cheschire on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:08PM (#26797464)

I (literally) went the opposite direction with a 32:9 monitor. I guess everyone's got their preferences!

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:12PM (#26797523)

If big enough and hi-res enough, it could be doable.

Also if you often do multiple things at once.

I find most of the time, I'm looking at one or two long documents (web page, source code) and running shells on my landscape laptop monitor so the combo works perfectly for me.

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by cheschire on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:18PM (#26797632)

I'm usually gaming (immersion is better in superwide) or I'm writing code (more real estate for uncollapsed visual studio windows) or browsing the web with netflix etc snapped to the side.

However I must note that superwide monitors are absolutely unusable in windows without PowerToys FancyZones functionality.

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by ksec on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:17AM (#26803199)

It absolutely make sense to have 16:9 or even 21:9 on a Desktop.

On a Laptop it is different though.

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by kuschku on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @06:41AM (#26805245)

My portrait monitor is 5:4 (or rather 4:5), which at 1.25 is a very generous area. Especially if using it to display content in A4, which has an aspect ratio of ~1.4 (it’s actually sqrt(2))

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