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can i have a link to your 10 year old 1920x1200 15" laptop? i'd buy one just for the screen to use in one of the many hacky projects!

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Dell has had a number of them over the years, one I remember was the Latitude D820 (15.4", with a 1920x1200 option) back in 2006 but I know they had such offers before as a colleague had one in 2005.

I'm not sure they offer WXUGA screens anymore though, it seems everyone has nerfed back to "full HD" (which offers 120 vertical pixels less) these days, which is bullshit. Since 2010 (when this trend started), the interwebs have been full of people trying to find out manufacturers who still provided WXUGA screens.

>> Since 2010 (when this trend started), the interwebs have been full of people trying to find out manufacturers who still provided WXUGA screens.

Exactly, it's like laptop vertical resolution in particular has gone in the wrong direction the past couple of years. What happened? Trying to view web sites on one of these resolution challenged laptops means a lot of scrolling up and down, feels like the 90s all over again. Glad I'm not the only one and glad Linux raised the issue.

> Exactly, it's like laptop vertical resolution in particular has gone in the wrong direction the past couple of years.

Indeed it has, formerly 1920x1200 screens were dialed back to HD at best (so 120 vertical pixels lost), and where the standard laptop resolution used to be WXGA (1280x800), WSXGA (1440x900) and WSXGA+ (1680x1050), all of that has been rolled back to the completely crazy 1366x768 garbage. TV's "HD" has been a blasted plague on computer displays.

Agreed. Trying to find a decent high-resolution screen is a real pain today. Dial back 5 years, and it wasn't such an issue! Everyone makes "HD" up until 24"... 24" HD is nasty.

I would hope for something approaching 3000 x 1500 in a 24" screen :-(

I have the D830 with the WXUGA screen and even though it's an old 1.8Ghz Core2Duo, I still refuse to buy a new laptop because I can't find anything with a 16:10 ratio, everything is 16:9 and it's difficult to find even 1920x1080 screens at a reasonable price.

You mean WUXGA. I also detest the shrinking of vertical pixels and the manufacturers pushing it on to consumers. Even on desktops, the prices for non widescreens (more vertical space) seem to be priced excessively to drive people to get widescreens.

Older thinkpads had these as an option http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/detail.pag... It's not 10 years but they are pretty cheap now anyways (although getting your hands on the WUXGA or even WSXGA+ isn't the easiest task)

My Toshiba Portege ultralight back around 2001 had 1920x1200 on a screen about 12". After that I got 15.6" wuxga Dell Latitudes and now a Thinkpad W500 from a Lenovo outlet because their current offerings dropped down to short-screen rez.

The 14.1 inch Thinkpad T21 released in 2000 had a resolution of 1400x1050. Not as good as you were asking, but an awful lot better than nearly all 14 inch laptops you've been able to get for the last 5 years.

Good old 1600x1200, here it goes:

http://www.laptopmax.com/HP/reviews/34/HP_Compaq_NC8000_revi...

Ohh, I have exactly this one unusable because of a dead motherboard at home.

I got Dell C810 with 1600x1200 screen around 2003. There is a couple of them still available on ebay

I got a Dell Inspiron 8200 with 1,600 x 1,200 in 2002

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