Somewhere in early 2000s, vertical resolutions for all laptops magically got locked to 768 lines and most users neither noticed or cared.
I think it was during the second half of the '00 decade actually. I remember 1050 vertical being popular at least until 2007.
Correct. Many Thinkpads had 1050 and 1200 until 2007 or so. It went downhill from there.
I had a 15.4" Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop from 2003 with 1920x1200 and it was amazing. When I released it a few years later it was not possible to buy a laptop from Dell with that resolution :(
I have a D830 with that resolution and I've used it exclusively until just the last few months simply because it was so difficult to find a (cheap) replacement. I now use a 13" Zenbook that has 1600x900.
I have a T42p with 1600x1200 display. I am actually afraid to use it in fear it might break so I use a T41 from the same time period with 1024x768 :(