Re: Help with Mobile Laptop Audio


Lorin David Schultz wrote:
> As an aside, what clever marketing *** decided that "widescreen"
> monitors were a good idea for computers?

The clever marketing *** who saw people watching DVDs on airplanes.
When they saw those wide black bands at the top and bottom of the
screen (just like when I watch a DVD through my TV set) he saw dollar
signs. "We could get all those people to buy NEW COMPUTERS if they
could get a real wide screen for their DVDs. They might as well buy
OURS."

> The better ones now have the
> same horizontal resolution my old Vaio has, but they've discarded 25% of
> the vertical screen space. Geniuses.

No, they haven't. They use it to fill up the new larger bag that the
owners will have to buy to go with their new computer.

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