11.6 Inch Laptop Screen Dimensions

How big is an 11.6 inch laptop screen?

Here it is drawn to scale against the largest size in our chart, the 18 inch. The screen covers 57 sq in371 sq cm.

Diagonal

11.6 in (29.5 cm)

Width

10.1 in25.7 cm · 25.7 cm10.1 in

Height

5.7 in14.4 cm · 14.4 cm5.7 in

Screen area

57 sq in371 sq cm

Aspect ratio

16:9

Perimeter

31.6 in80.3 cm

Who is an 11.6 inch laptop for?

Most 11.6 inch screens are on budget Chromebooks and school laptops. The small body fits a school bag and leaves room on a classroom desk. The keyboard feels cramped for long typing, and many models still use a low 1366 × 768 resolution.

Which popular laptops have an 11.6 inch screen?

Laptops with the same screen size can differ by an inch or more in width and depth. Check the maker's spec sheet before you buy a sleeve. Here are the exact screens of popular 11.6 inch laptops.

Models sold as 11.6 inch can measure a little more or less. The width and height come from each model's own resolution.

Our list has four 11.6 inch models, from Dell, Lenovo and Acer. All four are Chromebooks. All four use 1366 × 768.

At a typical 18 in46 cm, you could make out single pixels on every one of them with 20/20 vision.

How far should you sit from an 11.6 inch laptop?

A laptop usually sits 14 to 24 in (36 to 61 cm) from your eyes. The table shows how much of your view an 11.6 inch screen fills at each distance. It feels ideal at 14 to 18 in36 to 46 cm and small in view at 20 to 24 in51 to 61 cm.

Which resolution suits an 11.6 inch laptop?

Higher resolution looks sharper but makes text smaller, so you need display scaling. At 11.6 inches, 1366 × 768 gives 135 PPI and 3840 × 2160 gives 380 PPI. The table shows the Windows scaling each needs.

Sit farther away than the last column and you will not see single pixels. See every resolution in the chart.

At this size, 2560 × 1440 and 3840 × 2160 hide single pixels at every laptop distance. 1920 × 1080 hides them from about 18 in46 cm. 1366 × 768 shows them even at 24 in61 cm.

At 300% scaling, 3840 × 2160 draws everything three times as big, so its extra pixels go to sharpness, not space. None of them runs at 100%, as text would be too small to read at 18 in46 cm.

How does an 11.6 inch laptop compare with other sizes?

The next size up, the 13.3 inch laptop, has 38% more screen area. Area grows with the square of the diagonal, so a few inches feel bigger than they sound.

It is the smallest of the nine laptop sizes in our chart. The 13.3 inch laptop, the next size up, uses the 16:10 shape instead of 16:9. It is over an inch wider and about an inch and a half taller, with about a third more screen area.