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> It’s also stupid in terms of screen real estate. You can't really blame MS that around the same time screen manufacturers started to switch to 16:9 for cost
by omnibrain 7mo ago
> It’s also stupid in terms of screen real estate.
You can't really blame MS that around the same time screen manufacturers started to switch to 16:9 for cost reasons and cheap laptops all only offered a 1366x786 resolution.
- moron4hire 7mo agoThe whole "UIs got smaller because the aspect ratio got more rectangular" thing never really made sense to me because 786 > 600. The screens got bigger in both dimensions, regardless of them getting bigger in one more than they got bigger in the other.
- Arainach 7mo agoPixels aren't physical space. The number of square inches remained similar. A wider aspect ratio means that a horizontal line takes up a larger percentage of the overall screen and is more costly.