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From: mps@duke.cs.duke.edu (Michael P. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Screen size -- Is it too small?
Message-ID: <10479@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 01:46:59 EST
Article-I.D.: duke.10479
Posted: Mon Oct 26 01:46:59 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 07:28:02 EST
References: <171@ut-emx.UUCP> <4144@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> <3049@whuts.UUCP> <2140@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> <7465@dartvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mps@duke.UUCP (Michael P. Smith)
Organization: Duke University, Durham NC
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Summary: Small is beautiful


In article <7465@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes:
	[regarding claim that screen size is a drawback on Macs]
>Now, I wouldn't mind a bigger monitor, so that I could put more windows on the
>screen simultaneously (a big plus for things like MultiFinder) but I don't
>find the Mac monitor to be that small.  Is it just me?

My attitude exactly.  I don't find the 9" screen too small for a
single window.  I wouldn't mind a 12" screen to allow a few visible
windows at once.  But I am loathe give up the small footprint and
absolute quiet of my Mac.  My ideal machine would cram a 12" inch BW
monitor with even greater resolution, a 40meg HD, a 68020 with 4meg of
main memory and multitasking, into a box less than an inch wider and
higher than the original Mac (they can make up for it by taking a
little off the depth), and NO fan.  I like the original dinky
keyboard, too.  While we're at it, why don't we list it under $5000? 

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