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cespinal
May 13th, 2011, 03:37 PM
I would love to have your opinion.

I'm running unity in a super old, squared screen laptop and even though it struggles a little bit the hardware acceleration, I must say that having unity really pays up for these type of smaller screens.

Now... I just bought an Acer with a huge 17.3 inch screen. Havent installed ubuntu yet but hell I will be doing it soon...

Now, how does Unity feel in these wide screens? Having the launcher in one side and all the indicators in the other ide seems a little bit odd....

Also, how does in perform in modern systems? I had the chance to try a Mac yesterday and is was the snappiest thing ever... I am wishing that natty in a modern laptop feels the same...
ratcheer
May 13th, 2011, 03:56 PM
It was fine on my 1080p with nvidia proprietary driver. But, I converted to Gnome 3 anyway.

Tim
coffeecat
May 13th, 2011, 04:22 PM
Now, how does Unity feel in these wide screens?

Excellent. I'm posting from Natty Unity on a desktop with a 1920x1200 16x10 widescreen 24" monitor. It makes just as much sense on a large monitor as on my laptop and netbook.

EDIT: oh, and it's quite snappy too, even on my 1.6GHz Intel Atom netbook. No complaints here. :)
Maheriano
May 13th, 2011, 04:32 PM
I use a 16:10 HD projector as my daily screen, it's been running fine.
ventrical
May 13th, 2011, 11:26 PM
Acer Aspire 3620 and Acer Extensa.. both wide screens .. Unity gizzmo works great!
mgmiller
May 13th, 2011, 11:37 PM
I am running it from a persistent live install on a 4GB thumb drive on a Lenovo T400 with 14.1" widescreen with Intel GMA graphics. I demonstrated it for a friend who uses a new Macbook and he commented on how smoothly all the transition animations looked. It really is slick.
geazzy
May 14th, 2011, 12:03 AM
I am running it from a persistent live install on a 4GB thumb drive on a Lenovo T400 with 14.1" widescreen with Intel GMA graphics. I demonstrated it for a friend who uses a new Macbook and he commented on how smoothly all the transition animations looked. It really is slick.

nice comments from mac users
:guitar:
cespinal
May 14th, 2011, 03:21 AM
Thanks guys!... I'm certainly giving it a run as soon as I bring the new laptop home...
3rdalbum
May 14th, 2011, 05:43 AM
With Unity, the bigger the screen the better it is. I personally think netbook-launcher was a better UI for small screens, but Unity does work okay on my netbook.

And yes, Unity is good on widescreen monitors.
Sef
May 15th, 2011, 09:05 PM
Moved to Community Cafe.
JustinR
May 15th, 2011, 09:07 PM
Works great on my Dell 17.3 Inch screen (1400x900;nVidia GeForce 8600M GT).