Lenovo has today announced a refresh to their T60 series notebook that introduces the widescreen form factor as an option. While many manufacturers have been shifting their business notebooks to widescreen, Lenovo will continue to offer the T60 in either a widescreen or standard 4:3 screen ratio format. Following is a review and discussion of the T60 widescreen.
In no particular order, here are some advantages to using a widescreen display:
If your screen resolution is high enough and you have a 15.4" size screen you can easily view two windows side by side when using widescreen, offering advantages for productivity.
Users that deal with large spreadsheets or databases can see more column data at a time and don't need to horizontally scroll as much.
Adobe Photoshop power users and other designers can have enough room to place panels and buttons off to the side of the main design area window. This is preferable to placing them on top of, above or below the design window.
Viewing movies is more enjoyable, many movies are produced in widescreen format.
A widescreen display means a shorter screen, this can be advantageous in the tight quarters of a plane or train so that the seat in front of you doesn't bump into your laptop display.
The extra screen width can be useful to place chat windows off to the side of the screen and not have to put them on top of your main window.
Extra keyboard width for possibly making the keys more full size and adding a number pad (assuming the laptop is a 15.4" or bigger).
Triple pane applications such as Microsoft Outlook or RSS readers such as Feed Demon can benefit from a widescreen because you can view more information by moving your eyes and not scrolling up and down.
If your screen resolution is high enough and you have a 15.4" size screen you can easily view two windows side by side when using widescreen, offering advantages for productivity.
Users that deal with large spreadsheets or databases can see more column data at a time and don't need to horizontally scroll as much.
Adobe Photoshop power users and other designers can have enough room to place panels and buttons off to the side of the main design area window. This is preferable to placing them on top of, above or below the design window.
Viewing movies is more enjoyable, many movies are produced in widescreen format.
A widescreen display means a shorter screen, this can be advantageous in the tight quarters of a plane or train so that the seat in front of you doesn't bump into your laptop display.
The extra screen width can be useful to place chat windows off to the side of the screen and not have to put them on top of your main window.
Extra keyboard width for possibly making the keys more full size and adding a number pad (assuming the laptop is a 15.4" or bigger).
Triple pane applications such as Microsoft Outlook or RSS readers such as Feed Demon can benefit from a widescreen because you can view more information by moving your eyes and not scrolling up and down.
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