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Re:ThinkPad designer David Hill spills secrets, designs that... by FirmwareBurner on Sunday August 03, 2025 @10:46AM (#44776925)
>I suppose you could say that a "master glass" could be cut into 16:9 panels for both TVs and monitors, but wouldn't it require the two panel sizes to use the same pixel density?

Also they shared the same COGs(chip-on-glass) to drive the TFT panels. That's why laptops had the same HDTV 1366x768 resolutions.

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