I considered that, and it does sound like it could be a good screen. But I do use my laptop on my lap most of the time and it does get carried around between rooms at home all the time. I just think 17" is just a little bit big without a desk.


A lot of applications ignore the DPI setting, including Google Chrome, my Accounting and Payroll programs. So I had bigger than normal Windows elements with normal small sized applications it was just not useful.