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I'd consider it too, if not for the size of the drive.

Right now, unless something with a >1080p screen comes out, the ThinkPad Helix (https://www.lenovo.com/products/us/tablet/thinkpad/thinkpad-...) will probably remain on the top of my list for when the warranty on my current laptop runs out. At least it has 1080p on a 12" screen, rather than making me choose between a 720p I don't mind carrying and a 1080p boat anchor.

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I can't see anything on a 1080p screen at 12" and considering my eyesight isn't all that bad, I imagine it's not going to sell for most people.

On any modern OS, resolution and text size have little to do with each other. If you can't see anything, turn up the DPI to match the actual DPI of your display, and any well-behaved application will become readable.

Fair point. Unfortunately most software doesn't behave well with that on Windows.

This is a shortcoming of traditional GDI+ based Windows apps however, not of WPF based Metro apps.

Except the web likes to pretend everything is 96dpi.

Reading my sentence again, I think we can agree CSS is not well behaved.

I don't know about Chrome, but you can fix that misfeature in Firefox with a hidden preference, and tell it to actually respect the system DPI setting. Just go to about:config and set layout.css.dpi to 0.

They have these things called TrueType scalable fonts. Since like the late 1980s.

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