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Get Ready For The 20-inch Laptop
linumax writes "With so many DVDs featuring letterboxed or wide-screen versions of films, consumers' fascination with larger screen sizes is changing the size and shape of the laptop industry, stated an IDC report issued on Monday. The wide-screen format, found in only 39.2 percent of laptops expected to ship this year, will become dominant in mid- to late 2006. It will nearly eclipse standard screen dimensions by the end of 2009, the market research firm estimates. Samsung has already unleashed its upcoming 19-inch laptop. The product is expected to ship later this year. Dell, a major partner of Samsung, could easily adopt the large screen format for its high-end XPS laptops. And, LG Philips is also touting its 20-inch LCD displays for laptops."
I don't want to sound too much like flamebait but how on earth is this a Laptop?
I thought my brothers 17" Notbook was beyond portable, but this thing should come with a gift certificate to a chiropractor.
Pretty soon laptops screens will become so big that you won't even be able to carry them around, and you'll have to keep it permanantly on your desk. They'll have to come up with a new name though, I mean if you keep it on your desk, how about instead of "lap-top" call it something like "desk-top"?
I assume this is being marketed in America?
The rest of us don't have laps that big.
Widescreen format may seem like it's aimed at windows users, but it's really a boon for us nerds, too!
I spend a lot of my day wishing I had a wider display, about another 4", for those stupidly-wide Oracle SQL*Plus queries, other-people's code which uses insane tab widths for indenting (I use two spaces), and so forth.
Really, I rarely want a widescreen when in GUI land, but wish for one daily as I live in Terminal Land.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
Bigger laps, bigger laptops!
I thought it was part of an an international conspiracy to irradiate the reproductive organs of /. readers to keep them from breeding.
I'm pretty sure that will take care of itself.
I was quoted out of context in my autobiography...
It's two thousand and freaking five, for crying out loud.
Can't we at least say 500mm Laptop ?
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