Question Whats the situation with laptop screen size, is 16 the largest ,mainstream size ? Ive seen 18 and others!?

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Since they are trying to make the product small as well as increase their stats what will happen to screen sizes in time?

Will 18 or 20 inches become the new norm?
 
With a 20" screen, it is no longer a laptop.

Really, the only reason to get a laptop is for portability. Lugging around something with a 20" screen gets reall old, real fast.

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So this is 20 inches in a way you can easily understand Titan, how can 2 more inches than normal be such a major problem?
 
High end gaming laptops and mobile workstations have been 17.3" and 16" for quite a number of years. Just the logical size to stop at before they become too heavy and unwieldy.

Checking out some e-tailers I only see a few dozen total listings for 18" laptops. Now these are more or less the same size as 17.3", just a little taller in the screen 16:10 instead of 16:9.

And there are a lot of 3:2 laptop screens around which make for odd final dimensions, but they are usually on the smaller side, just the larger screen area.
 
aLIENWARE LIKES TO SELL AN 18 INCHER, IT DOESNT SEEM TOO LARGE but the man himself may be about 6,4 6,6 so its hard to guess the scale here. Point is Alienware is a flagship company its the big dog of PC gamming, and they recommend the 18 incher
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>Weight and size.
>Have you ever hauled around a big laptop on a daily basis?

For us who've been using laptops for a long time, I think we've developed a preconceived notion of what a "large" laptop should feel like, ie if it's big, it's likely heavy. But with advancing tech, that's no longer true.

My brother had the same thought you have. He wanted a 14" for his wife, since he's afraid she can't handle a bigger laptop. But a 16" can weigh under 3lbs, same as a 13" ultraportable, so portability is no longer a factor.

I recommended an Acer Swift Edge 16 for him, which he bought. It's last year's model, but with comparable Ryzen 7 CPU as this year (7735U's 680M IGP is about 10% weaker than this year's 7840U w/ 780M), and most importantly it's $600, or 60% off the original $1500 MSRP. Costco also has a 90-day return, 2-yr warr which makes the choice even more appealing.

View: https://youtu.be/MUunJrbMXP0


I've plenty of big, old laptops, and my experience is that portability is about both girth and weight, but weight is the larger factor. Watching the how effortlessly the reviewer handles the 16" in the above video because of its light weight, I don't see portability being a concern any more.

Now, about the size. I don't think it's the screen size itself that's the main constraint, but the corresponding deck size that takes up space on your physical desktop (or lap). Present laptop designs have the keyboard/deck size the same as the screen size, and at some point it just eats up too much of the deskspace to be practical.

So, yes, 16" is probably the limit for mainstream, with 18" being a niche. But as folding display tech gets more affordable and common, and more importantly, with the keyboard deck being decoupled from the display and thus not needing to be the same size, I can well see "laptops" getting larger and still be functionally portable.
Yea all that money just to lose at games because your lap top is small. Ill go on ebay