Plugging in an external moniter kind of defeats the purpose of these netbooks!

Well guys, I finally saw the Acer Aspire One at a local Office Depot and fell in love and bought the thing right there on the spot!

Steve- I could see the problem that you are having. These little notebooks are great, but they don't have enough screen resolution power to get a resolution that doesn't cut off the bottom of your forms... since the "resizer" idea doesn't work I looked for the fix, and lo and behold found it. It's easy!!!!

Ok, here's the fix:

1) Go to Start-> Control Panel-> Display
2) Select Settings tab, then select the best resolution, which should be the 1024 X 600 as stated by Miranda.
3) Now click on Advanced-> General-> then go to the dropdown field called "DPI setting" and select "Custom setting".
4) I selected 72 dpi, which is 75% normal size.

I warn you- the itty bitty type can strain your eyes, but it works! It sure as heck beats carrying around my 8 pound laptop...

[Linked Image from ultimate-netbook.co.uk]

BTW, have any of you considered turning your netbooks into touch screens??? It costs about $70 for the non-solder kit on ebay. Check out these YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=acer+aspire+touchscreen&aq=f, http://images.google.com/imgres?img...e%2Bone%2Btouchscreen%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Al

Last edited by alborg; 04/02/2009 6:54 AM.