http://www.limeduck.com/2008/10/10/wider-is-better/ probably the worst limeduck blog ever Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:17:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.limeduck.com/2008/10/10/wider-is-better/#comment-2606 Geek note: brown is the new black - limeduck Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:41:29 +0000 http://www.limeduck.com/?p=1223#comment-2606 [...] Feeling the need for more mobility in my computing and blogging, I recently bought an Acer Aspire One, a very small notebook computer, what’s often called a “netbook” these days.  It weighs 2.2 pounds and it’s (mostly) brown.  It also runs Linux and has a solid state memory thingy instead of a hard drive, so it boots up and shuts down very very quickly.  Here it is with a Thinkpad T40.  You can compare the Thnkpad’s 14″ not so wide screen (1400×1050) with the Aspire’s 8.9″ wide screen (1024×600) and refer to my earlier rant on wideness. [...] [...] Feeling the need for more mobility in my computing and blogging, I recently bought an Acer Aspire One, a very small notebook computer, what’s often called a “netbook” these days.  It weighs 2.2 pounds and it’s (mostly) brown.  It also runs Linux and has a solid state memory thingy instead of a hard drive, so it boots up and shuts down very very quickly.  Here it is with a Thinkpad T40.  You can compare the Thnkpad’s 14″ not so wide screen (1400×1050) with the Aspire’s 8.9″ wide screen (1024×600) and refer to my earlier rant on wideness. [...]

]]> http://www.limeduck.com/2008/10/10/wider-is-better/#comment-2454 David Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:52:18 +0000 http://www.limeduck.com/?p=1223#comment-2454 Late-breaking stats from one not so random website show this distribution of screen aspect ratios reported by visitors yesterday: 1.33:1 45% (37% is 1024x768) 1.6:1 30% (20% is 1280x800) 1.25:1 21% (all is 1280x1024) others 4% (range from super wide, probably double-monitor setups of 2.67 or 2.5:1 all the way down to some kind of mobile device at 320x396 or about 0.8:1) Late-breaking stats from one not so random website show this distribution of screen aspect ratios reported by visitors yesterday:
1.33:1 45% (37% is 1024×768)
1.6:1 30% (20% is 1280×800)
1.25:1 21% (all is 1280×1024)
others 4% (range from super wide, probably double-monitor setups of 2.67 or 2.5:1 all the way down to some kind of mobile device at 320×396 or about 0.8:1)

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