On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 13:56, Mrs C wrote: > What I found interesting about them is the display settings. Unless you kept > the settings on the original configuration, the screen ended up all stretchy > and weird. In other words, if you took the 17" screen and tried to make the > settings lower to make the objects on the screen seem larger, it didn't have > a "letterbox" type setting where the machine would black out parts of the > screen which aren't being used. It consistently stretched and distorted the > desktop to fit the letterbox size of the screen. It was ugly.
That's normal for most laptop models, but most offer an option in the drivers or BIOS to change it to the less guesomely ugly mode. Craig Ringer

