i think you are in trouble......
a square or portrait shaped screen requires the whole laptop to have this shape, the keyboard would'nt fit or it's a huge machine
the nearest ideas are:
buy the biggest laptop
buy a lcd screen that can be turned by 90 degrees
look around in the printing industrie how they solved the problem
in the earlier years they actually used screens specially made for portrait display to get a newspaper page visible at once, today i think they have large (landscape) screens if you can program your mouse/keyboard for easy zoom in/out (scroll wheel) that could be a help as well
James
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On 20/06/2007, at 6:39, Michael Hawkins wrote:

My G3 PowerBook 400 is over 7 years old. It works very well, but I'm going to have to replace it sooner or later. I'd prefer to buy another Apple, but all I can find have letter box shaped screens. They're fine for watching DVDs but not for working on documents, which is what I do, day in, day out. One store suggested that I buy an external monitor, but that defeats the purpose of a lap-top. Is there any thought or rumour that Apple may produce another line of lap-tops in which the focus is as much on screen height as
width? Or must I abandon Apple and go to the the dark side?

Michael Hawkins.



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