"It's got more pixels yes, but that doesn't make it N orders of magnitude more useful."

FOR YOU!!. People use to believe they really are the center of the Universe, so if they don't find something useful, NOBODY does!!

I know some professions in witch it certainly makes it 10*N times more useful.

I've noticed an increase in immature sounding posts on HN lately. Isn't school back in session yet? What (or witch?) profession finds it 10x more useful to have a laptop with a higher pixel count but still a standard, unimpressive effective resolution?

Such as?

The only thing I can think of is medical imaging and they use windows.