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Notebook with Huge 20 Inch Screen Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the desktop-replacement-not-laptop dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Trusted reviews has a look at the Acer Aspire 9800. This massive machine has a 20.1" screen, two 120GB hard drives in a RAID 0 array, super-multi DVD burner, analogue and digital TV tuners and an Intel Core Duo dual core CPU. And at over 17lb you can even use it for weight training!"

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  1. Re:Only 1680 x 1050 resolution by INeededALogin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How do you make the start button bigger... icons(this may exist on Windows)... seriously... the entire UI is scaled, who wants a task bar that you have to squint to see. And, yes I know you can make it bigger, but it doesn't make the widgets inside of it bigger.

    Also, who wants to have a special CSS file for their webbrowser to increase the fonts to 20pt because your OS renders those fonts in the webbrowser so small. What about applications that are not aware about your system preferences of normal font * 200%.

    Don't lie to yourself... OSs do not support desktop scaling. OS X has a couple of features, but it is far from ideal.