In considering widescreen vs. traditional aspect ratio in a laptop,
I'm wondering about the effect on daily use widescreen would make.

Most of my computer use is single app oriented. One browser window,
one instance of Word, etc. I think I'd actually prefer a reverse
widescreen- taller rather than wider. It makes more sense for
documents and websites.

What am I missing here? Widescreen is DVD/HDTV oriented, is it
logical for computers? How often do you widescreen owners find that
you actually have two genuinely in-use apps open side by side?

Not to knock widescreen, but I don't quite understand it. I'm looking
for a laptop and wide vs. traditional is the most important Q as far
as I'm concerned.

Thanks, Doug

I have a wide screen (Dell 8500) and while I really like it, it's not
a necessity by any means.

I find it useful in DVDs watching, of course.

But, I also use it by running two browsers side by side and still
seeing the whole width in each browser(1600x1200 resolution) and by
having multiple apps open and watching them all. I frequently have a
DVD frame, poker game frame, and something else open at the same time
so the extra width seems to make it easier.

However, as I said, it's definitely not a necessity.

The one thing I have found is that wide screen notebooks usually have
full sized keyboards(minus the number pad) rather than the slightly
smaller keyboard size I have found in regular notebooks.

Musashi


On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:58:07 GMT, Doug <pub-rz@socal.rr.com> wrote:

Nice when you have word open and help window side by-side at the same
time on the wide-screen...

Doug wrote:
I have an eMachines M5310. Some web pages size to fit like google-news, for
instance - and some web pages can't even handle a 1024X768 workstation
monitor, like MSN for instance.

After using this one for a couple of months, I'd have a hard time going back
to a regular laptop monitor no matter what resolution. I'm thinking of
moving to a wide screen with a higher resolution, though. This one is
1280X800. Of course, I use dual monitors with a spanned desktop on nearly
all of my workstations, so I'm used to, and I very much appreciate a lot of
desktop real-estate. - - Furthermore, if wide screen workstation monitors
with a response time of under 25ms ever come down in price, I might consider
switching from dual CRTs just because of my experience with this laptop.
Once you have had spanned wide display, it is nearly impossible to get
comfortable with a single 'square' monitor again.

Hi Musashi,

The HP Pavilion zd7010us has a numeric keypad. The machine is pretty heavy.

I just bought one of them on Tuesday, and am in the process of configuring the machine. The wide screen is nice (not mandatory).
I have multiple applications open and like being able to run a program I am writing, and at the same time watch the tracer I
wrote giving me reports on variable's values.

Ciao . . .
C.Joseph

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Musashi wrote:

Put your browser and document windows next to each other on the widescreen
display. Good productivity tool if you do a lot of research or document
processing.

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