HarryN
Flashlight Enthusiast
Hi, I am starting the hunt of a new laptop for mostly heavy business use, presentations (some are quite complicated files), travel, and of course, an occassional game. I am a pretty traditional windows user and have some windows specific software, so I probably wil end up upgrading it from win 8 to win 7 pro. My real challenge as I dig deeper is actually hardware related - the screen.
I do a lot of work on a business HP laptop 6515b which has a display aspect ratio roughly 3 wide x 2 tall. The main challenge I usually have is that as programs take up more and more of the top / bottom of the screen, I really would like an even taller screen.
As I look around, modern laptops have mostly gone the exact opposite way, more toward roughly 2 wide x 1 tall or worse. This is nearly useless to me.
So far, I have only found 2 laptops that are not tied to this very wide format:
- MacBook Pro 15 inch, which is pretty spendy. Yes, I could convert it to windows 7 pro but it just seems crazy to pay the apple tax and the windows tax.
- Google Chrome book - amazingly, they actually get it when it comes to display size and quality. The processor, ram, and always connected concept are a no-go for me, but at least it offers a glimmer of hope that some other firms make a taller rather than wider screen laptop.
I am looking for a 15 - 17 inch screen, healthy configuration and am willing to go a little over board if necessary, but an AMD A10 and 16 gig of ram is probably fine. Optical disc is not needed. Tough enough for travel use and decent battery life. (hours, not minutes)
So far I have looked at dell, hp, lenovo, msi, acer and the razor blade, but it could be that I just missed some since I didn't notice the screen problem until I had looked at quite a few for other factors.
Thanks
Harry
I do a lot of work on a business HP laptop 6515b which has a display aspect ratio roughly 3 wide x 2 tall. The main challenge I usually have is that as programs take up more and more of the top / bottom of the screen, I really would like an even taller screen.
As I look around, modern laptops have mostly gone the exact opposite way, more toward roughly 2 wide x 1 tall or worse. This is nearly useless to me.
So far, I have only found 2 laptops that are not tied to this very wide format:
- MacBook Pro 15 inch, which is pretty spendy. Yes, I could convert it to windows 7 pro but it just seems crazy to pay the apple tax and the windows tax.
- Google Chrome book - amazingly, they actually get it when it comes to display size and quality. The processor, ram, and always connected concept are a no-go for me, but at least it offers a glimmer of hope that some other firms make a taller rather than wider screen laptop.
I am looking for a 15 - 17 inch screen, healthy configuration and am willing to go a little over board if necessary, but an AMD A10 and 16 gig of ram is probably fine. Optical disc is not needed. Tough enough for travel use and decent battery life. (hours, not minutes)
So far I have looked at dell, hp, lenovo, msi, acer and the razor blade, but it could be that I just missed some since I didn't notice the screen problem until I had looked at quite a few for other factors.
Thanks
Harry