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Yes. Why will nobody listen to these complaints? Reiterating the point I made above, this is a big issue for me. Lawyers don't need horizontal resolution. They need vertical resolution. Hell, almost every lawyer in my office (a few hundred attorneys) has dual 4:3 screens ROTATED 90 DEGREES (3:4). 16:9 is going in exactly the wrong direction.

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Why not take 16:9 and do portrait orientation?

The desktop setup was just an example, and you're right that we could rotate any screen, as long as the horizontal resolution (vertical resolution at 0 degrees) is at least 1024.

In the laptop world (per the article), it's difficult to do portrait orientation and still type. :)

Ever viewed one from more than 15 degrees off-axis? It starts looking strange really quickly.

(I realise these guys would get the same problem with the 3:4 arrangement, but let this at least be a warning to anybody eyeing up a potential vertical 16:9 setup.)

Get IPS panels. They have much better viewing angles and look fine when rotated 90 degrees.

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