I agree that much content is more efficiently/elegantly viewed in a tall & narrow format. However, I still prefer a wide-screen monitor. Why? Because most of what I do seems to involve viewing two documents at once. E.g. working on code and viewing API docs, writing an email and viewing the web page I'm writing about, working in a terminal window and viewing the notes I'm taking, etc.
Exactly. That's why we don't see BSoDs on ATMs, Flight Checkin Terminals and other situations where Microsoft software is used for a single purpose on uniform harwdware. Oh wait...
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I agree that much content is more efficiently/elegantly viewed in a tall & narrow format. However, I still prefer a wide-screen monitor. Why? Because most of what I do seems to involve viewing two documents at once. E.g. working on code and viewing API docs, writing an email and viewing the web page I'm writing about, working in a terminal window and viewing the notes I'm taking, etc.
Exactly. That's why we don't see BSoDs on ATMs, Flight Checkin Terminals and other situations where Microsoft software is used for a single purpose on uniform harwdware. Oh wait...
Ditto here on a PowerMac G5. Fans spin up significantly less but the CPU usage looks about the same so it's probably a change in power management.
Swarthmore College's computer science department moved from Sun Solaris to Dells running Debian a year or two ago.
I'd imagine once your relatives decease they stop sending you mail -- conveniently cutting down on the amount you need to archive. Nice!