1920*1080 too high for SysAdmin work on a 13" screen

[Gazb]

Looking a small portable laptop (ultrabook) I can use when having to travel about for Systems Administration work, but with the increasing trend of higher resolution screens in smaller laptops has got me wondering if even 1920*1080 would be too high to comfortably carry out daily work like Group Policy Management and managing VM's etc.
Windows dpi scaling is unlikely to have much effect on a lot of these consoles.
Plus I don't think it has any effect when you are RDP'ing on to servers etc.

Does anyone have experiences of doing this kind of work on an ultrabook with a high resolution screen?

I was looking at the Dell Latitude e7240 (12.5" screen) and the slightly bigger e7440 (14" screen) with both had 1920*1080 screens which is what made me wonder about how suitable they would actually be at that resolution.

 

[AMDPower]

Hi

Honestly its really personal preference, I can tell you that my eye sight is starting to slip so found larger screens much better. But I have a 11.4" laptop and also a 13.3" laptop also a 10" tablet and also 8 inch tablet in the house. The are all 1920x1080 except the 8 inch, they are running windows 8 and I have installed c++ editor all of them to test and the only one I find uncomfortable is the 8" tablet running at 1280x800.

I would say at 13" is a sweet spot any anything above this is less riskier but anything below and your eye sight has to be good. It does get more tiresome on 11.4 reading small code text vs 13.3" laptop but both are workable.

so I would say something in the 13-14, if its not good you can always send it back.

 

[Gazb]

Hi

Honestly its really personal preference, I can tell you that my eye sight is starting to slip so found larger screens much better. But I have a 11.4" laptop and also a 13.3" laptop also a 10" tablet and also 8 inch tablet in the house. The are all 1920x1080 except the 8 inch, they are running windows 8 and I have installed c++ editor all of them to test and the only one I find uncomfortable is the 8" tablet running at 1280x800.

I would say at 13" is a sweet spot any anything above this is less riskier but anything below and your eye sight has to be good. It does get more tiresome on 11.4 reading small code text vs 13.3" laptop but both are workable.

so I would say something in the 13-14, if its not good you can always send it back.

Just noticed your response. I found myself with some time to kill this evening so had a walk around c world and had a play with a MS Surface 3 Pro, and to get a real feel for the resolution of the screen as it is set to scale things by 200% by default I opened up powershell (something I'd routinely have to do) and then was presented with a tiny window and text that is pretty much unreadable. Clearly it didn't scale at all and that high resolution on a 12.5" screen is simply too high. (Stranglely the powershell ISE does scale and was much more readable)

I think the other big issue of high resolutions on small screens (in a windows environment) is when you RDP to a server it doesn't scale.