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Screen & Keyboard

Modern notebooks that will cost you less than 20.000,- dkr. (except if you buy an IBM) come with 10-11" colour screens with VGA graphics (640x480 pixels). Though slighty less than the 14-15" colour screens of a standard PCs and somewhat less than the 19" (or more) screens of the X-Window workstations at DIKU, I personally find it acceptable for any of the standard GUI-based window systems (e.g., Windows95, X-Windows for Linux, or OS/2's Workplace Shell).

I find the keyboards (with or without build-in trackball, trackpoint or external mouse) of today's modern notebooks less acceptable than the screens, but I guess that is a "price you have to pay" if you want something portable.



michael@garfield.dk
2000-10-13