On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 07:45:23 -0700 (PDT) "Gerald C. Simmons"
<simmons@darykon.cet.com> wrote:

> 
> My 15" Apple PowerBook G4 supports 1280x854 resolution.

Your 15" Apple Powerbook is therefore not able to give me a 12" form-factor.
The 12" diagonal formfactor allows a machine which is around 10.5" by 9". The
14" and 15" screens require significantly larger, heavier machines.

Dell, in their infinite stupididy, have replaced the L400 by the D400, which is
10-15% bigger in each linear dimension, DOES NOT HAVE BETTER SCREEN RESOLUTION
and does have 'hooks' to make me want it, like batteries in the disk slot, USB2
etc. Why, oh why, do they fail to see the need for the finer grained screen
pixel? 1024 to 1280 is a *massive* change in the quality of fonts, number of non
overlapping windows, 'effective real estate' etc. (sigh)

> 
> Great machine, BTW. It runs Windows 2000 better than most of my PC H/W!

I would love to have one, or even the smaller 12.x" model. (which btw, is also
not 1280x1024 screen). 

So what is it about the 12" diagonal, they don't do the finer-grained pixels
which the 1400x1200 14" suggest is within their grasp?

-george