16:10 or squarer laptop ?
are there any lightweight non-touchscreen toshiba laptops with 16:10 or squarer screens ? i really like my toshiba portege r600 but i would like a dvi external monitor port and usb3 port - but no current mobile devices apart from the microsoft surface3 support anything squarer than 16:9 which is hopeless for running microsoft visual studio and microsoft word. i really dont want to get a microsoft surface as i need a built in keyboard, so any help much appreciated. cheers.
Use the Rotate, Crop, Ken Burns Tool and sit to FIT. It will letterbox, but you will get your entire frame.
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My macbook pro's memory is full and I purchased an external hard drive. I am using timemachine, but need to earse/free up some memory on my laptop. How do I do this?
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http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
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