.. For black and white writing, they sure do the trick and
then some... Would be neat with an LCD like that...
Hear, hear! This whole subject niggles at me constantly... because
I love
to see a whole page up on the screen
With the recent ATI video cards, at least the Radeon 9700 in my
PowerBook,
you can rotate the picture on an external LCD...
So, suppose you have a widescreen one, and suppose you could
physically
rotate the display 90°, then you can go in the Display preference
pane and
instruct the system to rotate the picture...
I use an HP 17" LCD model #1730 (with my Pismo) and this monitor can
rotate
to portrait display. "Pivot enabled" it says right on the front label.
'Course I've never done, but the option does exist.
So now we need to convince Apple to provide a Powerbook with a
semi-detachable 17" screen that can swing up and around to give us both
widescreen (for movies, etc) and portrait (for the writers in the
crowd).... even a 15" might work and set it to no colour (can one do
this - now I have to go look.)
Rick
PS: Aase - thanks for the trip down memory lane -- I too first used
this screen in the early 90s for college work ---- and no, it's not for
sale! Writing is one of primary jobs in the academic world I breathe
and I've often wondered if those old monochrome portrait screens helps
the writing process (I say this staring at a major paper for a journal
sitting, sitting, sitting, waiting for me). Chuckle, always nice to
have a good excuse -- I'll tell the editor "It's my colour LCD
powerbook screen, really, I need to be using a monochrome portrait
monitor (oops, I have one - oh, I'm saved, I can't hook it up to my
TiBook)."
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