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Re:ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that... by ginko on Saturday August 02, 2025 @07:02PM (#44772459)
Guess I’ll blame you for ruining laptops then.

1080 pixels is too little vertical space to read documents.

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Re:ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that... by hxorr on Sunday August 03, 2025 @03:25AM (#44774797)
Back in my day... We had 1024x768 and if you were rich enough for a 19", 1280x960
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Re:ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that... by lproven on Sunday August 03, 2025 @07:36AM (#44775866)
My first, second and even 3rd laptops had 640×480 in 16 greys, with passive matrix LCDs. They also didn't have pointing devices.

I still use 15+ year old Thinkpads with 1366×768 pixel screens (a bit cramped) and a W520 with a 1920×1080 screen. Twisted nematic screens.

For me, given the 20th century laptops I started on, I think they're great. Not perfect, but good enough to put in 2 weeks working 9-5 on one of them, no problem at all.

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