{"id":1101,"date":"2011-03-18T22:33:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T05:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2015-04-26T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T03:50:05","slug":"1366x768-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/1366x768-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid 1366×768"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it seems laptop LCDs are all going from 16:10 aspect ratio to 16:9, to match the HDTV standard format.\u00a0The most popular 16:9 HD resolution, 1366 x 768, has taken over the laptop market and taken away precious vertical space on almost every new laptop LCD screen!\u00a0I’m sure 16:9 is really\u00a0convenient\u00a0for watching for movies, but\u00a0I don’t watch movies, ever – especially on my laptop!<\/p>\n

1366×768 sucks because it is too short for any useful work, and not wide enough for 2 windows side by side.\u00a0I do a lot of programming and development on my laptop, so having\u00a0less vertical screen space just is not practical, and means more vertical scrolling.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the HD marketing hype, 1366 x 768 is the new standard.\u00a0This is really annoying since I’d personally like more vertical space. I can’t seem to find a decent thin<\/em> and portable<\/em> notebook to replace my current dying one (made in 2006!) – and I refuse<\/em> to settle for anthying less than 900 vertical pixels!<\/p>\n

My current [dying] 14″ laptop… \u00a0 \u00a01400 x 900 | 16:10 | \u00a01.24 MP
\nAny new 15″ or less laptop… \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01366 x 768 \u00a0| 16:9 \u00a0 | \u00a01.00 MP<\/p>\n

I’m not the only one, nor the first one, to complain about this…
\nWhy are we losing vertical pixels?<\/a>
\nVertical pixels are disappearing<\/a>
\nWhy does everyone hate 1366×768 screen?<\/a> *
\nObligatory xkcd<\/a>
\nSay Goodbye to 16:10 Notebook Displays<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t really use Windows much, but for some perspective: this fancy “HD” resolution is barely above Windows 7’s bare minimum screen resolution of 1024×768! It’s almost like we took a monitor from ~20 years ago and stretched it wider a few hundred pixels…<\/p>\n

Enough is enough –<\/em> I want my vertical pixels back!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Update<\/span>:
\nSo I broke down and got a Macbook Pro<\/a>\u00a0(15″ | 1680×1050 | 16:10 | 1.764 MP\u00a0= nice)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it seems laptop LCDs are all going from 16:10 aspect ratio to 16:9, to match the HDTV standard format.\u00a0The most popular 16:9 HD resolution, 1366 x 768, has taken over the laptop market and taken away precious vertical space on almost every new laptop LCD screen!\u00a0I’m sure 16:9 is really\u00a0convenient\u00a0for watching for movies, but\u00a0I … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[203,205,204],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-laptop","tag-resolution","tag-stupid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZdXI-hL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":715,"url":"https:\/\/mcclanahoochie.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/optimizing-gnome-screen-real-estate\/","url_meta":{"origin":1101,"position":0},"title":"Optimizing GNOME Screen Real Estate","author":"mcclanahoochie","date":"October 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Small screens suck. 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