[LINK] One Laptop per Child

[Jan Whitaker]

At 12:13 PM 21/11/2005, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>were using their 17" monitors with an 800
>x 600 pixel resolution - so they could read more comfortably. Quite
>an eye-opener! (pardon the pun...).

We change to 800X600 for our computer club display to get the larger fonts 
on everything. We drive a video projector from a laptop and find the higher 
resolution formats too small for room use with 'older' eyes.

>Apparently there are a lot of small laptops in use with the same
>resolution (many school kids prefer the smaller size unit, and don't
>get much choice over pixel dimensions).

Doesn't matter much except for the horizontal scroll bar movement around 
the screen.

Jan



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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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