Re: Microsoft to limit capabilities of cheap laptops

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Joe Pluta wrote:
> I'm already using Linux with my Asus EEE PC and I'm
> thrilled with it.

Joe,

I've been looking at Asus EEE and wonder if you'd share your impressions 
of the 7" screen size and 800 X 480 resolution.  For comparison I 
knocked my desktop monitor back to its lowest resolution (800 X 600) and 
the thing that bothered me off the bat was that so many Web sites target 
a 1024 X 780 resolution.  Same with Office applications.  And while my 
own Web applications generally target 800 X 600 resolution, scrollbars 
would appear at 800 X 480.

If scaled-back PCs were to become prevalent with students in K-12 
schools, it appears that I'd need to change my UI models and gear them 
to lower resolutions.

Brochures of Asus EEE also show a black border around the LCD.  Can't 
the 800 X 480 fill up the 7" screen?

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Nathan M. Andelin