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Laptop screen size
1/1: What is the ideal size of a laptop screen for you?
Other polls | 2,214 votes | 14 comments
Laptop screen size
Ideal size for carrying: My phone.
Laptop screen size
I chose "other" because 12 inches is the ideal notebook display size. The 11in requires a slightly squished keyboard, and the 13 feels a little bigger than I'd like for how much I carry it around. An updated 12 inch would be ideal, especially when paired with my 22 inch LCD that it is connected to when I'm actually at my desk.
Laptop screen size
I had to return the MBP Retina I ordered.The difference between 15" and 17'' sounds small but the reality is that 1440x900 pixels is 56% the real estate of 1920x1200. Pixel doubling does not change that one whit. I plan to get a closeout version of the Oct 2011 17" MBP instead. I'd probably go with a 19" if they made one. I may be different though than the average customer in that I want the maximum readable number of pixels in a computer which I can use at the kitchen table, or at my desk. I use my computer on airplane tray tables and the like less than 1% of the time. Size and weight barely register as criteria for me. As long as it is not too heavy to carry to the car I'm happy.
Laptop screen size
I'm currently on my third 17" Mac laptop in succession (a 17" G4 powerbook, 2007 MBP and currently a mid-2009 unibody version). Given that I use it as my primary computer for a range of stuff including DTP, Web Design and programming, I need all the screen real-estate I can get. Edited on Jul 09, '12 09:52:56AM by tersono
Laptop screen size
voted 15" but my only laptop is an 11" macbook air and no external monitor. chose the laptop for portability. vaguely interested in the new retina laptop but have better things to spend my money on than apple's bottom line.
Laptop screen size
This is resolution dependent (at least to some degree). I can say that if I have a retina screen resolution then 15" will do cause I can always change the display resolution and sac rice some of the sharpness for the ability to see more. 15 in. covers 95% of my uses and for those times when I really need to seen more I can shrink everything a little to get more on the screen. I would not want to have to use hit all the time at what a MBA 11" screen displays cause the eyes just will not cut it anymore but for short periods it is great.
Really depends more on a laptop's weight than screen size
I have a 13" MacBook Air, and really love how light it is - at three pounds you hardly notice the difference in a bag's weight whether the laptop is in it or not. But the screen is somewhat small for certain tasks.
Laptop screen size
Not applicable. Limited eyesight stops me from working effectively with any laptop screen; no matter how large it is, it's too low down to the keyboard for me to read on it.
Laptop screen size
For me, 17" is great. 15" maybe. Smaller? Not likely. ---
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Laptop screen size
I want a 27" screen on an 11" MacBook Air. Maybe a 3D projection screen, or an inflatable screen, or a screen connected to my glasses, or something. My old eyes need the big screen, but my old body needs the light machine to carry around.
Laptop screen size
At my desk, I use my 15" MacBook Pro connected to a 24" Cinema Display, so it doesn't make a difference what size the laptop screen is at work.... but on the road, being used to all that screen area, the 15" seems small at first, but then I get used to it. I've tried the 17" and it isn't as portable as I'd like.
Laptop screen size
I chose 11" simply for the nostalgia: the 11" PowerBook was a masterpiece of design.
15"
My last two computers were 15" MacBook Pros and I got to really like this size. I use external monitors everywhere: in 2 offices at work, at home + laptop screen itself. Hence, most of the time I work with 2 screens and stopped using Spaces at some point: don't really need them when I have 2 screens. On a rare occasion though (at a coffee shop, while traveling), I can get work done on 15" screen. It does not fill small.
Laptop screen size
When I switched from my 21" iMac to my 17" MacBook Pro, I found it very hard to adjust to the smaller screen when my laptop is on my desk (where it spends 80% of it's time). From 2+ feet away, my 50-year old eyes had too hard a time reading text, so I bought an iPad and now everything is much better (although reading text on my laptop remains an issue. I take the iPad with me when I travel (which is what I originally bought the MacBook for) and everything works out fine. I think for my next machine, I will go back to a 21" iMac for my desktop (unless Apple comes up with a way to operate an external display with the laptop lid closed). |
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