@sir Far too many laptops: 16:9 / 16:10 high-gloss displays.

Similarly: WXGA+ resolution (1440x900): most useless resolution evar.

Too fucking short for high-res text.

To fucking wide for portrait mode.

I'm leaning vaguely toward hybrid formats. A decent tablet, with a full shell, and a folio-type, full-keyboard, self-supporting case, might be an option. That featureset doesn't seem to exist.

@izaya There is that.

But in standard, laptop (or desk) use, 1440x900 is almost perfectly useless. Depending on pixel density / pattern, it's also not all that great in a vertical orientation (Roman/Latin glyphs tend to have more horizontal than vertical distinctive features, and where RGB patterns run horizontally rather than vertically, text gets muddied).

I do a *lot* of PDF, djvu, or epub reading. For that *either* a 1-up portrait *or* a 2-up landscape view is best.

@sir

@mdhughes For terminals, generally, yes, though I'm reaching a point where I've got to start bumping font sizes up. This hurts more ways than one.

A key problem is that I'm *NOT* simply using terminals. When I'm reading PDFs on laptops, and older (non-retina) desktop systems, *I need the full display* for all but the most high-end (e.g., Retina iMac) displays.

Even for desktops, 1440x900 is depressingly common. For 2-up PDFs that's just not enough detail.

@izaya @sir

@mdhughes And since I'm generally reading *and* writing or researching, that means in almost all cases having another 1-3 screens, possibly more, visible:

- 2-up PDF
- Terminal w/ editor.
- Browser (text if possible, often not).
- Code
- Often further references (other PDFs, other writing, code references, etc.)

Yes, multi-tab / mutliplexed tools (screen/tmux) help, but only so much. Often I simply need a lot visible at once. Again, the iMac Retina (4096x2304) is WONDERFUL.

@izaya @sir