Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Most are now 16:10 which in higher resolution are great for both landscape and portrait mode.
4:3 is a throwback to low resolution screens.
VGA was 640x 480 4:3 and when computers took off SVGA 800x600 was prevalent until we got xga 1024x768 4:3.
Everything 4:3 pretty much stopped there and we moved to widescreen usually keeping that same 768 height until 1080p arrived.”
“Most are now 16:10 which in higher resolution are great for both landscape and portrait mode.
4:3 is a throwback to low resolution screens.
VGA was 640x 480 4:3 and when computers took off SVGA 800x600 was prevalent until we got xga 1024x768 4:3.
Everything 4:3 pretty much stopped there and we moved to widescreen usually keeping that same 768 height until 1080p arrived.”
I have to disagree with you here. The 4:3 ratio is much better in portrait than 16:9. The only benefit of 16:9 is for watching videos, which is why Apple stuck with 4:3. The 4:3 iPad 4 is 2048x1536 pixels, which really pushed modern screen resolutions into the future. If it wasn't for Apple I doubt we would have made it past 1080p.
Wait for the Retina iPad Mini and A7X CPU, it will blow all the other 7" tablets out of the water. The new Nexus 7 looks good on paper, but it does suffer from a pretty unresponsive screen and slightly dodgy wifi, but overall it's the best buy if you are on a budget.




I'm the same Jeff, no adblocking here.
but imagine having to put up with the borders left and right on a 16:9 screen. Oh the horror... the horror