[Tfug] Laptop options

[Leo Przybylski]

:/ i use 18 pt consolas oblique and 1280x800. If i ever needed copius
amounts of anything, i turn to rackspace, eucalyptus or amazon. I let them
do what they do best rather than put myself through torture. Good thing
about grad research is that you're more likely to justify a beefier
server/vm farm than a beefier laptop on your grant.

Also servers tend to be able to compute and process even while your laptop
sleeps. Which is exactly what i am not losing with a bigger font and not
sweating any possibly lost cycles from standard screen sizes.

Leo
On Nov 18, 2011 8:41 PM, "Jude Nelson" <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Having used 4:3 and 16:9 screens to develop code at length, it is my
> professional opinion that 4:3 is far, far, far better for coding than
> 16:9.  I would willingly trade 1080p for 1600x1200 any day, and I'd be
> using a T60p instead of a T510 if it weren't for the fact that I need a
> modern CPU and copious amounts of RAM for the kinds of research I need to
> do as a grad student.  Those extra 200 pixels in the vertical dimension
> make a HUGE difference (I have my text on my T510 rendered in 8-pt font
> just so I can cram more text on the screen).
>
> -Jude
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Tyler Kilian <vaca at grazeland.com> wrote:
>
>> Not trying to be contrary, but why not just embrace widescreen?   The
>> boat has sailed on this one.  4:3 isn't coming back, so why not spend your
>> money on a superior machine with widescreen?   I'm also curious, why can't
>> you do work on a widescreen?  Millions of people are able to work on
>> widescreen just fine.
>>
>>
>>
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