[SATLUG] 40" LCD + SuSE 10.0 config

[John Choate]

My grandmother is 92 and cannot see well at all. She got a 32" LCD TV to 
replace both her television and her computer monitor. Since Windows fonts and 
icons didn't scale well enough for her needs, I converted her computer over 
to Mandriva 2007, dual booting with XP. Now all fonts and icons scale well 
enough so she doesn't have to use her glasses PLUS her magnifying glass 
anymore. She can now deal with email and openoffice as well as sudoku and 
freecell... much better than before. I haven't seen her use XP in 3 months :)
John

On Monday 12 November 2007 07:49:41 herb cee wrote:
> Brad Knowles wrote:
> > On 11/11/07, Alex Bartonek wrote:
> >> looks great to me. Its temporary until I buy a 22"
> >> LCD for the computer.so for now I'll use it as-is and
> >> enjoy. As for the distance..i'm sitting about 8'
> >> away.
> >
> > Funny thing is, I was thinking about precisely this same kind of
> > solution for my Dad. He always has a hard time seeing the screen, even
> > though his current screen is a nice 19" or 21" CRT that I bought a few
> > years ago, and it's running at 800x600.
> >
> > I was thinking that an LCD HDTV screen used as a monitor would
> > actually be a good choice for him, because that close the pixels would
> > be *huge*, and yet he'd still get better resolution than he does today.
>
> Brad
> I am an elder (77) with poor eyesight and 2yrs ago I went from 17" CRT
> to 17" LCD and I could see the screen a lot better, I dunno why since
> the CRT was not interlaced but there was big improvement just from CRT
> to LCD, I just recently bought a 19" LCD and that was a huge
> improvement. I have it set at 1024x768 and I can see the screen very
> good. I bet a slightly larger LCD for your Dad would be great for him. I
> got the 19" at Geeks for $188 including shipping and I almost went for a
> 21 that was only few bucks more but decided not.
> Herb