Michael, I find that wide-screen is so much better for working with
documents than the old "square" 4:3 aspect ratio. I feel so cramped
on the old style now. The reason is you can then far more easily
have 2 documents side by side when comparing or copying and pasting
etc. If you want as much vertical height as possible for a single
document, one thing you can do in MS Word is to resize all of the
toolbars to a vertical rather than horizontal orientation and drag
them to the sides of your screen thus allowing your doc to use up the
full vertical height of your screen.
Because of the high resolution of the latest laptop screens, you get
a higher number of pixels vertically than older laptops anyway. Even
the little 13" MacBook has a vertical resolution of 800 which is
higher than the 768 pixels of the old XGA (1024 x 768) screen on your
G3 PowerBook.
I have a 24" Dell LCD screen (currently on sale for $999) next to my
MacBook Pro which has the option of rotating 90 degrees into portrait
mode. You just choose the Rotate 90deg option in the monitors panel
which works fine on my MacBook Pro.
YMMV
-Mart
On 20/06/2007, at 6:39 AM, 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.
-Mart
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