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This guy uses a TV for a giant screen

TVs just keep getting better as monitor replacements.

Leander Kahney
April 12, 2023

Years ago, hoping to get the biggest-screen experience possible, I hooked up a giant, flat-screen TV to my Mac.

It was horrible.

Although the screen was enormous, it didn’t have the resolution to display Mac OS X properly. Everything was fuzzy and unfocused.

It hurt my eyes to look at it.

But these days, modern TVs offer much-higher resolution. And, as today’s featured setup shows, they are better-suited to acting as monitors. Resolution is still an issue, but If you want a giant screen, get a TV.

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Tweetz o’ the day

From the newly released collection of Jobs writing via Steve Jobs archive (free): stevejobsarchive.com/book
Great stuff. Here’s his favorite quote:
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan)
4:06 AM • Apr 12, 2023

Beautiful 🤌🏻
— Alex Gilev (@alexgilev1)
7:49 PM • Apr 10, 2023

One more thing ...

❝

We’re constantly taking, and the ability to put something back into that pool of human experience is extremely neat.”

— Steve Jobs, 1983.

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