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p**s poor screen resolutions

What is it with this new fad of crippling every new computer with a 1366x768 screen resolution? Seriously - a resolution that low should be limited to netbooks and screens <12". By law.

Not everyone is so blind as to need their desktop icons to be the size of their fist - and some people actually like having a bit of screen real-estate to work with. When will the manufacturers realise this?

I don't care if I have to pay a (small) premium to get a proper screen, but the option should *always* be given.

(yes, I know the Dell E6420 does give the option - but that doesn't excuse the fact that it is crap and is a total disgrace to the Latitude name.)

And any manufacturer that thinks 1366x768 is ok on a 15" screen should be banned from making any more computers. Ever.

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For the record.

If any of the machines had given me a metrosexual wank-spasm I'd have automatically awarded them 100%.

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Whiny crybaby fanbois

What a surprise, a flock of whiny apple fanbois up in arms like insulted scientologists because their overpriced underspecced shrinetop doesn't have the reviewer quivering in a post review metrosexual wank-spasm.

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