[VincentVega]

figured out what I want. wxga+ in a 17" lappy. 1440×900. I have a monitor here at work that does 1600x1200. I used dualview on my current notebook and dragged visual studio over to it. The font was so small it was illegible. Do people really use even higher res? how?

anyway, I tried a 1400x mode and it was a good balance between readability and extra space. (for instance, I can leave open my context menus on both sides of the IDE and still have a full page in the center to type code). seems ideal to me.

So the real trick is now finding a high quality LCD in an affordable 17" notebook that's just wxga+. They seem to be all WSXGA+ or more which starts at 1680×1050. makes everything too small

17" glossy lcd notebook with wxga or wxga+, please