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Not just model #'s. Try and find a good and reliable 1900x1080 laptop. I tried and ended up getting a MacBook Pro. I've used a lot of laptops over the years (all Windows based), none of which were Macs. The build quality of this thing is amazing. Yes, it was expensive. Was it worth it? I think it's easily 2x better than the ASUS I almost bought--ASUS and Sony were the ones that had 1900x1080 or higher res. I never buy Sony because of the bad experiences I've had with their hardware. The ASUS got too many bad reviews on New Egg... hence the Mac purchase.

No wonder everyone wants a Mac laptop. They are simply the best.

And, I use Linux and Windows mainly, though I have a Mac mini as a media center. I own an Android phone. I am in no way a fanboy.

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Someone on Hacker News told me about the Dell Precision M70 a few months ago. It's 1920x1200 15.4" screen. Cost me the equivalent of $300 (though it is second hand off Ebay).

Quite possibly me, as I used to run one.

Just checked my MBP, and it's a 17" 1920x1200. Bloody awesome screen.

The Dell shades it though, being a 15" panel rather than a 17", which is a bit on the gigantic side.

HP hides their best laptops:

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/321957-321957-...

These are the "Mobile Workstations." Basically, powerhouses. They're expensive, but they're very good. These Elitebooks are the ones that my school gave to the incoming freshmen. Before that they gave us the Compaq 8510w, which I love. Its resolution is 1920x1200.

They certainly go out of their way to NOT tell you the resolution of their screens. Nowhere on that page does it tell the resolution. Click to configure one, and it still doesn't say.

At best they say "HD", but that's meaningless, as there are several HD resolutions. They give the screen size, but that's meaningless.

WTF? Why do PC vendors do that? Either they don't say it all, or they use some obscure acronym. Would it kill them to just put in the frigging numbers?

Thinkpad t510 does 1900x1080 if you get the upgraded video card

And I know at least two people using linux on their T510 laptops so I can tell you that that works.

> 1900x1080

1900?

20 horizontal pixels short of full HD?

Why?

My guess is that they used to be 1900x1200, but someone got the clever idea that they could save a few bucks and market it as HD (it does have the number 1080 in it!) at the same time.

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