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Article #20752Re: Screen size -- Is it too small?
From: Michael P. Smith
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1987 06:46
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1987 06:46
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In article <7465@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes:
[regarding claim that screen size is a drawback on Macs]
>Now, I wouldn't mind a bigger monitor, so that I could put more windows on the
>screen simultaneously (a big plus for things like MultiFinder) but I don't
>find the Mac monitor to be that small. Is it just me?
My attitude exactly. I don't find the 9" screen too small for a
single window. I wouldn't mind a 12" screen to allow a few visible
windows at once. But I am loathe give up the small footprint and
absolute quiet of my Mac. My ideal machine would cram a 12" inch BW
monitor with even greater resolution, a 40meg HD, a 68020 with 4meg of
main memory and multitasking, into a box less than an inch wider and
higher than the original Mac (they can make up for it by taking a
little off the depth), and NO fan. I like the original dinky
keyboard, too. While we're at it, why don't we list it under $5000?
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mcnc!duke!mps From: mps@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael P. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Screen size -- Is it too small? Message-ID: <10479@duke.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 01:46:59 EST Article-I.D.: duke.10479 Posted: Mon Oct 26 01:46:59 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 07:28:02 EST References: <171@ut-emx.UUCP> <4144@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <3049@whuts.UUCP> <2140@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> <7465@dartvax.UUCP> Reply-To: mps@duke.UUCP (Michael P. Smith) Organization: Duke University, Durham NC Lines: 22 Summary: Small is beautiful