Re: ideal laptop recommendations?

"Cliff L. Biffle" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 05 May 2003 04:34 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I have a friend who has the 1600x1200 and I an assure you that it's not
> too much. Fonts look much cleaner and it is amazingly readable, even to
> my 50 year old eyes, with rather small fonts. I don't envy the weight,
> but I LOVE the display.

I'd like to point out something here that a lot of people, particularly those 
with Windows backgrounds, don't realize.

Higher resolution in X doesn't have to mean smaller fonts.  By properly 
setting you DPI in your X configuration (many monitors report their size 
automagically, saving you the trouble) a 12pt font is a 12pt font regardless 
of resolution.

Now, granted, graphics and whatnot are still going to be smaller on a high-res 
display, as are some bitmapped fonts, but for the most part, higher 
resolution just means greater clarity.

-Cliff L. Biffle
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