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LT using an Air surprises me because of the lack of screen real estate. I dislike coding at 1280x800 (but I'm usually using Eclipse these days). Heavily customizing Compiz has made 1680x1050 bearable with Eclipse, but I prefer the 1920x1200 dual monitor setup.

LT would probably say something akin to, "real men don't use IDEs."

I'll go for super portable when they put 1920x1200 into a 12" inch screen. (I won't have issues with reading at that density.)

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For the record, the 11" Air is 1366x768. That resolution will comfortably hold two side-by-side Emacs buffers. (1280x800 won't hold 80 characters-wide side-by-side buffers under the default Ubuntu font, but decreasing the font size by a notch will make it fit.)

For what it's worth, there does exist a 1600x900 12.1" screen in the Panasonic SX. Also there's an ASUS transformer tablet (or something), maybe not yet out, that has a 1920x1200 resolution in something like a 10" screen.

And for the record, the default resolution for the 13" Air is 1440 x 900.

>I'll go for super portable when they put 1920x1200 into a 12" inch screen. (I won't have issues with reading at that density.)

Are you serious?

Yes, he is. Some of us have excellent visual acuity. We would welcome devices that reward this with open arms.

Another way of looking at it is that the new iPad has 2048x1536 on a 10" screen - and yet despite this, even your genetic inferiors can read what's on it...

That's really irrelevant here, the text size didn't change between the old and new iPads, it just got sharper.

Second. I was stoked about Retina display, not because it was an actual retina display IMO, but because you didn't have "pixels the size of gorillas," so to speak.

I've never used one, but Sony's Vaio Z23 has a a 13" 1920x1080 screen, which comes close (and is lighter than a MacBook Air). It's also staggeringly expensive.

If the rumours are true, Apple will release a 2560x1440 (2560x1600?) laptop in the foreseeable future, though.

I can agree with this. I've been waiting and still am for something. I really would like to see that iPad screen on a laptop. It's 10" yes, but on the road code would be so much better. I can plug it into a monitor when at home or work.

I had 1920x1200 on a 12" toshiba 10 years ago. That was when I got sold on wuxga, and the trackpoint as a well.

All you need are 80 columns.. and a few rows. Its forbidden to go > 80 on linux

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