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Re:Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad by amarshall on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:57AM (#30499324)
Given the same diagonal size, a more-square display has a greater total area. So a 16:10 13" display has more area than a 16:9.
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Re:Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad by fomine3 on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @01:20AM (#30510352)
We should stop using diagonal size metric for display. It's fine for TVs that have fixed aspect ratio, but confusing for multiple aspect ratio.
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Re:Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad by amarshall on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @10:30AM (#30515331)
Agreed. Along with that the ambiguous 1080p, 1440p, etc. monikers. So much shorthand assumes the aspect ratio. Plenty of displays that are 21:9, 16:10, 3:2, etc.

That said: diagonal size with an aspect ratio, e.g. “13" 3:2”, is fine.

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