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Originally Posted by davester
I have played around with the DX as a Windows monitor and was not satisfied at all. I followed the directions of how-to posts on jailbreaking the Kindle, installing software on it & and on Windows. When I finally figured out all the elements of what to do, the lackluster result was immediately apparent:
1) I could not get the Windows-mouse to be visible on the Kindle. I could see the Windows desktop/programs OK, but without seeing the mouse, I could not utilize Windows w/o looking at my main LCD monitor.
2) 9.7" is too small ... and I got more eye strain from squinting at the Kindle to figure out what the teeny text says. DX has a 1200x800 resolution and the "use a DX as a monitor" instructions maps pixels of the Windows desktop 1-to-1 on the Kindle, such that you can't zoom out a 1024x768 Windows resolution to fit the 1200x800 kindle. What happens is that you get a black area for the the (1200-1024)x(800-768) area of the DX. Widows programs with smaller text is very hard to read on the Kindle
3) The greyscale of the DX makes it even harder to read/identify things. On a LCD, green text on a red background is easy to identify, but on greyscale, it can be very difficult to read, especially on 9,7" screen with very small pixels.
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This was pretty informative, thank you. So would you say getting the Pixel Qi is a bad idea as well ? I would assume so since the display is hardly bigger.