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The screen doesn't matter much for programming. What matters most is the keyboard. If the notebook doesn't provide an intuitive keyboard (i.e. the insert, delete, pageup/down, home and end keys are in stupid positions, perhaps even some other keys), stay away from it.
Yeah, on my laptop's keyboard I have this tendency to write my destructors as:
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If you can actually find a laptop with 19 inch (I don't think I've ever seen one), then you should have no problems with the keyboard, I believe. 17 inch do exist and are very nice. Have one myself.
However, if the laptop is too large, it ceases being portable, in which case one might as well get a desktop computer.