2008/9/4 Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But if you need the big screen, why the laptop? Surely you get > a better bang for the buck with a traditional motherboard/monitor > setup. Especially if you want a low-rez big screen. >
The desktop is rather difficult to carry to the university every day. > Personally, I think the whole big-screen low-rez thing > is a red herring- people are used to operating systems > and apps that can't adjust font and icon sizes. Bigger > screens should have higher rez and one should adjust > the fonts and icons to the size that is comfortable for > them. > > By the way, one cool trend coming out of "netbook" > and moblin/maemo/hildon work is that big-icon maximized- > app UIs are making a lot of progress- while they are > aimed at small-screen devices (and moblin/maemo at > some finger-operated devices), a lot of the same issues > are directly applicable to larger screens and those with > aging eyes. In these cases the whole UI is geared toward > a smaller number of pixels. Agreed 100% -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
