On a 12" screen, no. Notebook computers, when opened, have plenty of vertical space but limited horizontal space. A 12" 16:9 screen means that its display is wider and shorter than a 12" 4:3 counterpart. This makes reading standard size pages more difficult.
I totally agree. I can't watch movies on a 4:3 screen. I would totally buy this with a 16:9 screen. I would rather it be a little wider than longer - I can scroll documents.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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i love these notebooks but i must have widescreen
On a 12" screen, no. Notebook computers, when opened, have plenty of vertical space but limited horizontal space. A 12" 16:9 screen means that its display is wider and shorter than a 12" 4:3 counterpart. This makes reading standard size pages more difficult.
I totally agree. I can't watch movies on a 4:3 screen. I would totally buy this with a 16:9 screen. I would rather it be a little wider than longer - I can scroll documents.
Make it 16:10 not 16:9 or 4:3.