[futurebasic] Re: size _does_ matter

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From: Mars Saxman <marssaxman@...>
Date: Thu, 7 May 98 13:42:58 -0800
>My laptop uses a single 13" color and it's a pain for me to use
>effectively. I use it for only times when I can't get to my real system.
>
>In my real system, I use two 20" monitors and am thinking about buying a
>third. In other words, I want more screen space. 

I still get lost when I look at a 19" monitor. It just dwarfs the content 
of the screen. I'd have to crank my font size up and sit farther away 
just to make my text stand out, and then why not just use a smaller 
monitor in the first place? :-)

I could probably manage to get used to a 17" monitor, though. That's 
unimaginably huge, but probably tolerable.

Then again, I'm hopelessly retro, so I should probably exit this 
conversation before I make myself sound ridiculous...

>I think that having the
>possibility to create a huge desktop is one of the greatest things about a
>Mac over any windoze machine. The windoze world just simply doesn't
>understand the concept.

Agreed. This is terrific for desktop publishers, graphics types, and 
other people who work with 2-D print images. And it's just so technically 
*cool*, to boot.

-Mars