I want to buy a laptop to use when I have to travel on business. I am a single-issue buyer: I want a laptop with the goddamn tallest resolution I can find. 1600x1200, preferably. I for damn sure do not want widescreen; that is the opposite of useful for the way I work. With the state of computing power as it is, I do not think it is possible to buy a computer that does not have enough disk, memory, or CPU for the way I work, so all I care about is how many lines of code I can have visible on the screen at once.
HP loves them the widescreen, and although it's relatively easy to find specs for the home/home office models, you can't get them for the business models without going through a configuration process that's completely pointless for my purchase needs. No sale there.
Dell is COMPLETELY uninterested in showing the user specs on anything. Nothing other than "deals" is visible above the fold on any of their main pages. And while I eventually found a description of the displays that are possible on their laptops, the description does not link to the model. Finding a particular model isn't easy--I had to do a global search--and when I found the model that was earlier said to have the display I was interested in, it, of course, did not. No sale there.
Also, both sites seem to be utterly fixated on product lines, as if I could give a flying potato whether a particular laptop is an "Getty 2112-series" or a "Mumia 13x". Maybe their salesmen know the difference, maybe laptop nerds know the difference, but I don't, and it's in my way. Both are also fixated on some sort of mythical gulf between the home/home office customer and the small business customer, Dell to the point of forcing that bifurcation to be your first decision point, ahead of anything else.
Of the two sites, HP's was better, but, y'know, at the end of the day, I couldn't find out if either had what I wanted, so nobody gets my business.
Why do you want such a high rez? Yeowtch, I'm getting a headache just thinking about it. A pastor friend of mine uses, I think, 1600x1200. i can't imagine how he sees anything. and my websites don't work beyond 1024x768.
It's all about lines of code. The way I work, I want to be able to see forty, maybe fifty lines of text at a time. Coding, for me, is about context, seeing where the loop and if and function boundaries are, where the variable I'm using was declared. Even with small fonts, that means a tall screen. And I prefer to have multiple windows open.
Or when I'm working with a document in Word. You can't get more than half a page on the screen at once in 1024x768. (At least not in page layout view.) And the behavior of the page-down button when there's less than a full page visible is massively annoying. (I don't use "normal" view because its far-left justification annoys me.)
Unlikely: they don't have full keyboards, do they?
Can you send me the specs you need? I can also get you a discount like I did for the printer.
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