[geeks] Wow, PCs are cheap...

[Jonathan Groll]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:34:17PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>From: james <james at jdfogg.com>
>>Date: 2008/08/22 Fri PM 10:37:31 EDT
>>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>>Subject: Re: [geeks] Wow, PCs are cheap...
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>>I got a similarly configured Vostro (400 I think) about 6
>>months ago. It's my Winders desktop (running XP). I use it
>>constantly and often run 6 or more heavy applications
>>simultaneously. I have never had to reboot it, and it only
>>gets turned off a few times a year. The wide monitor was a
>>bit hard to get used to, but it seems natural now.
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>Well, my father in-law will probably not run it at it's highest resolution - his aging eyes will benefit from increased screen area...

Not sure if there is any benefit to ever running a TFT screen at it's
non-native resolution?

Cheers,
Jonathan