Every laptop display should be 2560x1600, dreams Linus Torvalds

Please.... give me a 2560x1600 15inch laptop and while you're at it give me 16 cores and 64GB of RAM. It will keep me going until I have a 100MB link to my personal private cloud running on my server at home. I currently run out of RAM and CPUs when I do end-to-end testing on my laptop and I have 8 cores and 16GB of RAM.

The option to have a high-res laptop screen would be great, and at only $100 it is easily affordable, to me at least. I have been wanting one since well before the "Retina Display". The extra screen real estate makes a huge difference for a developer.

Go Linus, do everything you can to make this happen!!

Unfortunately, I think Windows is one of the main reasons we have nothing better than FHD on laptops, as Windows does not scale its display well, and as much as I hate it Windows is the prime driver behind PC/Laptop sales. If most people use Windows and Windows can only handle up to FHD and be readable, why would the manufacturers add more cost to their devices in such a competitive environment, when it will not make sense for 99% percent of its market. Laptops these days are mostly made from cheap plastic where the keyboard flexes badly, so do you really think they would add a $100 cost for a better screen?

I hope you are willing to pay 3-4k for that 16 core laptop with 64GB's of ram.

And it will probably be closer to 5k since no one makes anything like this now.

I would hate to see what the battery life would be on that thing.

And unless I'm mistaken there are no 8 core cpu's in the consumer market so your machine had a quad with hyperthreading. Not 8 real cores!

ummm...AMD fx black edition? that has 8 cores?

1> By the time a laptop is released with what I want, the price will come down.
2> Battery life should be around 2-3 hours which is roughly what I currently get, it is a desktop replacement afterall. Current technology allows a quad core in a pad device to last 8 hours or more, so 16 cores should be possible with any luck in the coming years, how long before it appears is anyones guess?
3> I will give you that, I simply call them cores because that is how they show up in my status, as cores.

The big problem I have with my quad core hyperthreaded (see 8 cores is even shorter to type) machine is not running out of memory, but running out of "cores" to assign to virtual machines.

Not really.

simliar approach to intel but minus about 30% ipc lol

It sounds like you need a dual socket Xeon my friend not a laptop!

100% satisfied with 1080p HDTVs. Most HDTV channels use 720p or 1080i as 1080p is too much to stream. While having higher resolution screens isn't something I oppose, can we at least face that we aren't even utilizing the current HD standard? Do we really all have to go buy new screens because some knuckle head suggests 1080p isn't enough?

Google made his dream come true with newly announced Nexus 10 tablet.

Quite a few years ago I was a regular visitor to Photokina in Cologne. I remember the days when High resolution monitors from Eizo, Barco and even Nokia ruled the professional market. They were very expensive though.