> > Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > Rant! > I used to believe in the "more surface area = better" argument as well. In fact I went through basically the exact same logic you did.
However. On widescreens it is easier to get two usefully-sized windows side-by-side. So, for me at least, while there are net fewer pixels for a particualr size measurement (Who pays attention to actual physical size anyway? So long as it's "big enough" I only care about native resolution), they are arranged in a more useful configuration, which ends up being a net win. Of course, this is something that the math does not reveal, so I fought converting to widescreens for a good long time. Now that I've gotten used to working that way (and have a substantial workload that benefits from working that way) doing anything on my last 4:3 display (on a Think X61) is almost comically frustrating. So long as I have at least 1000 vertical pixels I'm happy. You can have my widescreen displays when you rip them from my cold, dead hands. :D QH _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
