I wasn't sure if I'd ever like having a widescreen computer display. I thought I'd rather have a larger screen in inches than a 17" wide screen because I could get higher resolution out of it and therefore more screen space. I bought this laptop with a widescreen partly to see what widescreen is all about.
Now that I've worked with it, I must say I love it! Specifically, I use this laptop for programming. I open my IDE (Netbeans 5.5) and maximize it. My code window is in the center taking up the same amount of space I'm used to, and I have panels of information and tools on the left and right sides of the screen. On a normal screen I might sacrifice some of my code window to get more stuff on the left and right. I think it's great for programming and if you use things like Macromedia Flash which also has a zillion things on all side of the screen.
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
