Jimiz.net – Jim Becher on the web

I am very pleased with my newer T410 laptop.  The only complaint I have found is the resolution.  It is set to 1280 x 800, which is not bad. It is a wide screen but not too high of a resolution.  I was used to a T61 with a 1680×1050 resolution WSXGA+.   It is amazing how you can miss that real estate.

When I started looking for a smaller laptop (14 or 13 inch), I was amazed that there were not that many high resolution machines to select from.  I was able to find a few T410′s with 1440 x 900 resolution but they tend to be a lot more expensive.  The T410s also had a higher resolution.

The question I have, is where have all the high resolution laptops gone? You can get a 15 inch or greater laptop with unreal resolution but the smaller (14 inch ) or less have limited resolution.   Is there a reason for this?

You can find this type of resolution on a laptop a few years old, but not too many new ones.  I’ve found it is difficult to get used to a smaller resolution, especially when using visual studio.  In fact I’ve been frustrated enough that I’ve been looking for any t410′s with 1440 resolution to purchase and sell my current one.

After my not so trusty dell d20 laptop decided I needed another hard drive inside of it, I realized that I should go with solid-state hard drives. It could by my frustration with the machine I have (dell mentioned earlier) but why do hard drives have to be the main point of failure. So while a scrubber program is running on my hard drive to clean up the bad sectors and parts of the disk, I get to use my home laptop. My IBM t61 is a joy to use, but not having my main work laptop is starting to be an issue at work. I have all my stuff backed up (read earlier posts of my other 4 hard drives in this machine), but I’m not really excited about pulling and working on files from different locations if I can get a snapshot of my drive.

So to resolve the issue our IT team is cleaning up the drive with a program and Dell is sending me a new machine, they are starting to think maybe something else is wrong. Or maybe it is just me.

I have a great idea for laptop manufacturers, just make an internal slot or a memroy bay where us users can inject an SD card 4 gig or so and create a small RAID or backup utility that would work outside of an OS.