Originally Posted by
m047375
I completely agree with this poster's viewpoints, that's why I had to register and make a comment on the issue. As tech is being steered by a new generation of business groups in the corporate side of the industry; Including those that start making financial based decisions on the manufacturing side of companies who make monitors for instance, the engineers' decision and in many cases the trained personnel to make decision for these companies have been silenced or completely eliminated. Monitor makers in the last few years have silently transitioned the unaware consumers to a lower resolution product based on what consumers utilize their computers largely for. But this is the moderate consumer which outnumber the more adept & knowledgeable computer users. This has made the normal progression of technology to be able to be halted in a way as to "milk" the consumer dollar with a product that is cheaper to manufacture and is eeasier to read by young children and way older senior citizens(those that expand the market base even more). This is a shame no matter how you look at it really. On one side we have the industry itself.. You know engineers are not designing new architetures with netbooks or iPads and are still likely utilizing technology that wasn't necessarily computationally superior, but has lasted this long due to technology not improving significantly at the same time, at least not as close to the progression that it naturally should have been (I am implying controlled technological advancement based on a business objective). But al this does NOT matter!
I am as fukking pissed off at this stupid trend as the original poster of this thread and just purchased one of the last (if not the last) laptops that have the WUXGA 1920x1200 resolution (14:10 aspect ratio), the Dell M4400 (although 8GB max RAM). And, I might buy a couple more models as well! Because I love the resolution and aspect ratio for my work. You see I am an engineer as well as work with radiological information; I also make a lot of spreadsheets. Like the poster mentioned, it is the real estate that I am most interested in that makes my work efficient. productive and even fun at times. Let me just end by saying that I believe a lot of our current stagnation as well as issues that could be easily avoided in our current world are brought about by the same out of touch ignorance, that seems to be more successfully propagated than innovation or proper technological advancement. Stupid Stupid Stupid!!
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