At 9:45 PM +1300 01/10/2006, Bryan Taylor wrote:
with desiring something better than 1152x768 resolution, I wonder how many of us could cope with high resolution on small screens as we advance in age? I keep looking at a new 12" powerbook, but keep fretting about whether my eyesight would cope with font sizes beyond comfortable continuous use. If the new intel ibooks are rumoured to go to higher resolution smaller screens, us baby boomers may be left behind.
I already run my 17" monitor at 832x624, and often hit "make text bigger" in Safari.
Installing OS X and apps was problematic. Kept running into dialogs that displayed off the bottom of the screen; couldn't reach the buttons! And sometimes, it forced the monitor to 1024x768 - so I had to use a magnifying glass.
There are apps and system pref panes that are very difficult to use -- they have dialogs with controls that end up below the bottom edge of the screen. And since you cannot move a window up, in OS X...
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