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Would you buy a Portrait Macbook?

Would you buy a portrait macbook?

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junkw

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My desktop monitor is vertical (portrait).
I love it.

I'd buy a MacBook with portrait display anyday.
Better for the neck.

I wonder why no laptop company make one.
Sure one can use a tablet in portrait but a real laptop with fixed keyboard would be great
 
It would have to be really big, since the keyboard still needs to be a certain width, then the screen would be even taller. That would also cause a lot of wasted space on the keyboard half of the laptop. Not to mention videos would be extremely weird to watch on a laptop like that.

I mostly use my iPad in portrait, but the majority of my use on the iPad is browsing the web. The majority of my laptop use is watching videos, so I don't think I'd buy a portrait laptop.
 
Hell no. Not only do I dislike narrow displays, it would mean that the keyboard would either have to be tiny, or have a full-sized keyboard, which means the display will have a giant 10 or so centimeter border on each side, basically making it pointless.
 
Channan said:
On the plus side, it would make watching all those videos that people record with their phones in portrait much easier to watch.
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But those portrait videos are so inefficient in terms of space usage that I'd rather not watch them at all.
 
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No, because your lap is only so long, tray tables in aircraft are only so deep, etc.

If you're doing DTP, then that's a bit different - for one you're normally working at a desk, and not trying to do so in a cramped environment or on the move.

if you ARE wanting to do DTP on a macbook, plug in a monitor.
 
MacInTO said:
Does anyone remember this monitor?

It worked well for word processing.
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I do, but never purchased one. A few years after that, I ended up with a Radius Portrait Display (so very heavy!), mated to my PowerMac 8500. Now, I'm using two Dell P2715Q displays mounted to Herman Miller Flo arms. I have a technical writing degree, and am hopelessly addicted to portrait displays... 😀
 
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campyguy said:
and am hopelessly addicted to portrait displays...
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me too. much better in portrait. wonder why I used a horizontal monitor for years.
Portrait is a lot better for me for coding, editing documents, web surfing. It's way more natural.

Sure for movie watching the value is probably different.

For a gamer I don't know...Probably some types of games are better in portrait and some better in landscape
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mrkramer said:
Considering the size it would have to be to accommodate a keyboard it would be way too big.
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Depends... Waytool's TextBlade is going to kill the traditionnal keyboard. If I were Apple, I'd buy Waytools and put the TextBlade in a Portrait Macbook.

It could accomodate bigger batteries that last 24 hours. Could be a game changer laptop... If it is made by Apple. I would not trust any other company to make it "right".
 
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junkw said:
me too. much better in portrait. wonder why I used a horizontal monitor for years.
Portrait is a lot better for me for coding, editing documents, web surfing. It's way more natural.

Sure for movie watching the value is probably different.

For a gamer I don't know...Probably some types of games are better in portrait and some better in landscape
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Depends... Waytool's TextBlade is going to kill the traditionnal keyboard. If I were Apple, I'd buy Waytools and put the TextBlade in a Portrait Macbook.

It could accomodate bigger batteries that last 24 hours. Could be a game changer laptop
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considering the form factor, portrait isn't an option
 
junkw said:
Depends... Waytool's TextBlade is going to kill the traditionnal keyboard. If I were Apple, I'd buy Waytools and put the TextBlade in a Portrait Macbook.
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Yeah I've seen that, and it doesn't seem useful at least for typing anything long, which would be the main purpose of a portrait MacBook. There wouldn't be much of a market for it.
 
The only way I could see this happening is if they made a detachable screen.

Maybe a few years down the line there could be an iPad pro that might be powerful enough to replace the MBP, as another option, can't see it soon tho
 
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junkw said:
My desktop monitor is vertical (portrait).
I love it.

I'd buy a MacBook with portrait display anyday.
Better for the neck.

I wonder why no laptop company make one.
Sure one can use a tablet in portrait but a real laptop with fixed keyboard would be great
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I think you have your answer 'why no laptop company make one'. According to your survey you're the only person who would buy one.
 
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There's the occasional situation where this would be nice, but all the time? No way. I suppose they could hypothetically put the display on some kind of swivel that could rotate between portrait and landscape but I doubt that's a common request.
 
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