You can still get an 18" laptop from Dell, the Alienware M18x. It's a little expensive though...
Dell Inspiron 17R SE 17in Ivy Bridge notebook review
I’m currently mourning the demise of the 18-inch Dell XPS that I’ve been using as a TV/DVD player in my bedroom for the last five years. Hardly anyone seems to make 18-inch laptops anymore, but Dell has come up with a good alternative in the form of the new Inspiron 17R SE (Special Edition). Dell Inspiron 17R 17in Core i7 …
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Tuesday 17th July 2012 09:06 GMT Dazed and Confused
HD1080 === Low res!
> Try and find any new machine with a 1200p screen
I know how you feel, I couldn't, I needed to replace my HP8730 and couldn't find a new laptop apart from an Apple with a proper screen, and that doesn't have a ethernet port ffs. The only option I could find was to buy a reconditioned previous model. (OK actually Panasonic make a 1920x1200 15" laptop, but the rest of the spec didn't match what I needed and I appreciate the extra 2" these days, used to love my Inspiron 8500 but my eyes aren't what they were).
My job doesn't involve watching blurays.
It does involve handling windows taller than 1080 pixels.
These things are supposed to be professional tools not toys for watch skin flicks.
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Tuesday 17th July 2012 12:32 GMT darkplanet
Re: HD1080 === Low res!
I was about to suggest Dells own Precision 6600. I have a 6500 for work and had a 6400 before that, both running 1920x1200 resolutions but just looking at the current machine specs and they have dropped to 1080. Really don't understand why when these are pitched as CAD stations where as much screen real estate as possible is only a good thing!
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Tuesday 17th July 2012 14:21 GMT Darryl
Re: HD1080 === Low res!
Slam Apple as much as you want (and I'm guilty of that) but they're the only ones who are bucking the trend of putting cheaper, lower-res displays in their laptops. The rest of the manufacturers have found the magic marketing resolution of "HD Screen!!" and decided that's good enough for your average buyer.
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Wednesday 18th July 2012 09:02 GMT Gerhard den Hollander
Re: HD1080 === Low res!
Aw .. for fscks sake ..
I'm typing this on a 6400 that I got (long story) as a hand me down, but it has seen a lot of wear before Ii even got it.
1 USB port is dead, the 2 USB ports on the left work only if i wiggle them a bit, and the chassis is slightly bend out of shape . It has been used before by a traveling salesman, and has obviously had more then a few ``oops it fell of the table'' accidents.
Other then that (and the reason I stick to it) is that it's an extremely good workhorse/luggable workstation with a very nice scraan with a 1980x1200 resolution.
Now if not even dell will be shipping 1980x1200 transportable workstations, I wonder where we should go and start looking for a replacement brand :(
Can anyone point me to a laptop that has (at least) a 1200 vertical resolution ?
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Tuesday 17th July 2012 12:27 GMT Dazed and Confused
Re: 5400rpm drive?
> Power and heat are the only reasons I think they keep shovelling this things into laptops.
$$$$ is the reason that they, and most others keep sticking 5400RPM disks into laptops.
The marketing zeebs that decide what to put in can't understand anything about disks other than "how many gigabytes is that then". Putting better disks in doesn't make for better ads, in their eyes, so why waste money.
Also you can normally get more gigabytes on a device at lower RPM, the read rate off the head needs to be faster to read the same density at 7200 (ie very slow speed) than it does at 5400RPM (dead snail pace). Faster disks are therefore normally smaller. Smaller disks is something that the zeebs recognise as being bad. But since they only think that the device is to be used to watch videos then as long as you can transfer data at the required rate for that, why would they worry about performance.
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