So, my dad's company just bought a few new Dell laptops. I have not seen them but they sound nice. But there's a problem.

The laptops have 15" "widescreen" LCDs. Their resolution is 1920x1200. I wasn't aware that LCDs that small had resolutions that high. That seems pretty ridiculous to me. I don't know any business people who have good enough vision for a resolution like that. My dad certainly doesn't.

So, I plan on seeing what I can do to adjust the Windows environment to get around this problem. Any tips/pointers on what I can do? I don't really want to turn on the "accessibility" options, since those make things a bit too large, but I want to adjust things so that they are suitably visible. This is in WinXP Pro.

And why would they make the resolution like this? Why not use a lower resolution with the same aspect ratio? It doesn't make any sense to me. The 23" LCD monitor they were looking at for their desktop publishing station has the same native resolution. That seems a bit absurd.