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Linus Torvalds Advocates For 2560x1600 Standard Laptop Displays
beeudoublez points out a Google+ post by Linus Torvalds arguing that today's standard laptop display resolution is unreasonably low. He said, "...with even a $399 tablet doing 2560x1600 pixel displays, can we please just make that the new standard laptop resolution? Even at 11"? Please. Stop with the 'retina' crap, just call it 'reasonable resolution.' The fact that laptops stagnated ten years ago (and even regressed, in many cases) at around half that in both directions is just sad. I still don't want big luggable laptops, but that 1366x768 is so last century."
Of course, silly, Apple doesn't make displays.
Apple funds the R&D, manufacturing, and quality control of "crap" Linus Torvalds drools over.
Yet again more proof that Linus doesn't think about how things IRL work. Economics 101...You sell what makes you the most money and leads to the least waste, and in this case its using the same screens in TVs and laptops. This is why damned near everything under 17 inches is 1366x768, because all the low end TVs are at 1366x768 and frankly their yields are VERY good at that resolution. If they were to go with his idea? Look at prices to jump 45% as the yields on those simply aren't as good and that waste will be passed onto the consumer.
If he WANTS a screen that size? Its called a free market, he can have one, but it won't be as cheap because the economies of scale simply aren't there. My 12 inch netbook is 1366x768 and I have to say that resolution works perfectly fine for what I use it for, which is a mini-office and troubleshooting tool on service calls. I COULD have gotten a higher resolution screen, but the next closest model to what i got with a higher resolution screen was more than double what I paid. I weighed my choices, decided that the increased resolution wasn't worth the increased cost, and bought my E350 netbook instead.
Its a free market linus, you want a Macbook? You should buy one. you want any screen resolution? Then buy it. But the masses shouldn't have to subsidize your choice which is EXACTLY what would happen if we listened to you. Instead the CONSUMER gets to choose what works for them and that which becomes most popular? becomes cheaper thanks to economy of scale. Business 101 Linus. And its obvious the winner in mobile is 1366x768, followed by 1600x900, with 1080p relegated to the desktop replacement category. Maybe in 5 years they will be able to crank 1080p screens as cheaply as the 1366 ones and we'll see a shift, but for now it seems pretty obvious that unless you break out the checkbook its gonna be 1366x768.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Then he should shut the fuck up.
It's annoying when you are an aging dinosaur posing as something oher than a hopeless luddite.
This should be a case of form following function with any end users with half a brain able to figure out what to do with the "empty corners" and such.
Screen real estate is valuable, far too valuable to listen to stupid hipsters.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.