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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.

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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?

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