How big a laptop screen is big enough?

[Frimley111R]

I have an old HP G72 which is a big old thing and has a huge screen but tbh it's wider than any website and so when viewing, I often get 'dead' space either side of the screen making it pretty redundant. I guess a new one does not need to be as wide but how wide is wide enough? I don't watch much on it so a big screen for viewing films etc is not important.

[Frimley111R]

Ok, what I mean is that, for example, if I show PH on my laptop the PH page can only spread so wide, after that the background just extends to the edges of the screen. This happens with a lot of sites, so do I really need such a wide screen?

[Frimley111R]

Thorburn said:

Frimley111R said:

Ok, what I mean is that, for example, if I show PH on my laptop the PH page can only spread so wide, after that the background just extends to the edges of the screen. This happens with a lot of sites, so do I really need such a wide screen?

As per my first post: In your browser press the CTRL and + keys together to zoom in (CTRL and - to zoom back out). This will scale up the page and use more of the width of the window.

Basically all laptop screens are the same aspect ratio, so scale up using that.

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