Re: eeeditor

[Jon Pareles xywrite4@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan wrote:

> Reportedly, Acer will shortly be coming out with one that
> offers a 10-inch screen. Whether that is enough
> screen-estate to overcome the (valid) objections raised here
> by Patricia and others -- about whether serious
> word-processing is actually viable in that form-factor -- I
> do not know.

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I have been known to be serious, and I write just about everything now on my Fujitsu P1610 (which
was pricey compared to the new bunch of netbooks). The screen is 8.9" and like other small
screens I have used --Toshiba Libretto, Fujitsu U810, Sony TX650P--is magnificently sharp. The
Fujitsu packs 1280 x 768 in that tiny space. (Eee PC 1000 series is 1024 x 600 on its 10-inch
screen.)

In fact I now find larger screens grainy and annoying at times. With TAME, I'm using the Aurulent
font at 14 points in a 25-line XY window, and it's wonderfully readable. Even un-TAMEd, I could pump
up Lucida Console fairly well.

I've had to tweak Windows display settings and browser settings to get icons and web pages to
display in non-microscopic sizes, but once tweaked, the only glitches are with certain inflexible
web pages. XY is absolutely no problem on a small screen.

Jon Pareles