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> quarter. It comes with a 1024 by 768 screen. I have heard that these > screens can be difficult to read. This will be a function of the user's eyes; I know that eyestrain is a much bigger issue for me now than it was 20 years ago. My last laptop purchase was a 12.1" 800x600 instead of 1024x768 for this reason, and frankly I prefer the 640x480 on my 10.5" 701 for some things (though SVGA is minimal real estate for many Windows apps). Remember that for a given screen size, XVGA characters will be 78% the size of SVGA, and 62.5% the size of VGA. Put another way, a character on a 12.1" XVGA screen will be about 72% the size of the same character on a 10.5" VGA screen, despite the bigger overall screen size of the former. (This sounds even worse by area: the 12.1" XVGA character will be roughly half the area of the 10.5" VGA character.) I'm not making any recommendations here, just giving some numbers. If you're young, have good eyes, and like to keep lots of windows open, then go for the highest resolution. If you're a geezer like I am, and think of Windows mainly as a switcher between full-screen tasks, go for plain VGA. SVGA is a good compromise. - David R. -