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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
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Date: 13 Jun 91 04:47:20 GMT
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In article <240@touch.touch.com> mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas) writes:

>The LC has the same resolution screen as the 9" screens...512x342.  The pixels

Correction: 512x382.

>are just larger on the bigger screen.  Now that's not the way to get a
>"sharper" image.  But is IS the way to fool the customer into thinking
>he's getting more for his $$.

At most of the shows I've been to, MANY novices preferred the low cost color
display BECAUSE the pixels are larger, even when I pointed out the differences
between the low cost color display and the standard 640x480 color display.

>Even macoids I've heard critizize the LC as the FATBITS display.  (For Amigans
>who wouldn't know, the FEW mac paint programs that actually support
>magnification call it FATBITS, because the pixels become huge square blocks
>on the screen).

What a piece of crap.  NAME the current commercial Mac paint program that does
not support magnification/fatbits.  You even get to add in any commercial
color paint program, draw program, or hybrid paint/draw program.