My students love their laptops. We have monitors in the class, and I encourage them to use those. It is always a hard slog to get them to plug in, so today I decided to make a comparision graphic to see if they would responds.
This is a view of the Nile Delta, and off all 3 screens it is at 100% resolution to show all the detail of the Landsat TM imagery. In the top left, our seniors have a laptop with a tiny screen and they can see a tiny portion of the delta. Our external monitors, top right sees a much larger area, so they get a huge improvement with the external monitor. (The juniors and sophomores have the same size monitor 2K monitor as the external monitor, so they won't see more, but they can use the second screen for the directions and the word processor to write up their labs).
And me? I have the 4K monitor on the bottom, and I see everything: the detail and the big picture. On the student laptop, they barely see anything by comparison.
This GIS program is good about using most of the screen for the map; a number will carve out huge chunks for legends and other controls, further enhanching (or de-hanching) the postage stamp effect.
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