Working with code without syntax highlighting would be aweful. Also, text right now is rendered with subpixel precision, e.g. Microsoft's ClearType [0].

Because only the horizontal resolution would be tripled, you would have a distinction between horizontal and vertical edges - i.e. if the difference in resolution would be noticable at all (which I'm not convinced of if you already have a Retina-ized screen), it'd be very bothersome to only have it in one direction, exactly because the difference would be noticable.

I love how he claims it would save on RAM and graphics power, while in effect it would require equal or more amounts of each, since you're just replacing one 24-bit pixel with 3 8-bit pixels. Arithmetic on one 24-bit pixel is faster than doing it three times on 8-bit values, so you'd need much more processing power and at least an equal amount of RAM. A thoroughly poorly researched article.

The idea strikes me as completely useless. The author probably read about Leica's digital B&W camera and thought it was ingenious.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType

The HP Omnibook 300 is what you need. B + W screen, essential productivity programs in ROM. Windows 3.1. No wireless, but it wasn't needed in 1993. Maybe they'll update it?