The new laptop is wonderful for watching movies with a 1280×768 resolution. It’s a bit odd when it comes to a fully maximized browser so I’m getting used to not using programs fully maximized. The real oddity is when I hook it up to a projector for class as I did for the first time today. I’d previously tested the laptop on Friday with BCR’s brand new projector and I got the widescreen display projected as I’d expected. Today, with an older projector, it would only display 1024 of the width at a time. So, I started with the middle 1024 and the projection would scroll to one side of the other as my mouse pointer moved off the projected image. Thinking this wasn’t the best option I lowered the laptop’s resolution to 1024×768. The projected image looked clear and displayed the whole screen. However, it still filled my laptop’s screen by streching the image horizontally to fill the whole screen. (The image in this post shows a rectangular PPT slide on my laptop which was displayed properly as a square when projected.) It took a bit getting used to, but the important thing was that the students could see what they needed to see.
