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With high density displays these days, 1080p on a 13" laptop or other smaller laptops is possible


It might be possible, but sadly it's rarely been done at any reasonable screen quality. And it seems like an overkill to choose a laptop based on its resolution when you could just have the app not waste space instead.


The Chrome Pixel has a 12.85" display at 2560 x 1700.

We did chose laptops based on their resolutions. Otherwise, you'd still be using an 80x24 character display monitor.

Like this bad boy:

http://craphound.com/images/compaqmmex.jpg


Yes, and the Pixel and a handful of laptops from Asus and Samsung are the only 1080 px or higher small laptop options around. The mainstream has stagnated around 700-800 px for 12-13" for over a decade now, and when someone puts 900 vertical pixels in a sub-14" laptop it's still out of the ordinary. We did move up since the Portable in 1983, but we haven't advanced much past the X21 in 2001.




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