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* Position of antennae. They work better in a generally upright position, parallel to each other.
 
* Position of antennae. They work better in a generally upright position, parallel to each other.
 
* Rotate screen button: Easy to find, but what's it for?
 
* Rotate screen button: Easy to find, but what's it for?
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**I find it most excellent for using the XO as an e-reader.  I flip the screen and set it flat outwards, rotate the image, and I'm good, as long as the text flows unimpeded by some clever "web designer" that things I have a huge screen. [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 00:19, 10 April 2011 (EDT)
 
* Book reader mode and page controls: You also need to know about screen rotation to make this work properly.
 
* Book reader mode and page controls: You also need to know about screen rotation to make this work properly.
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**too bad neither the mouse or the buttons follow a change in the acreen orientation - they follow some convention related to "normal" screen position. Can be bypassed by using an external USB mouse
 
* Keyboard switching key, replacing ×÷ on keyboards for countries and languages using a non-Latin alphabet or other kind of writing system.
 
* Keyboard switching key, replacing ×÷ on keyboards for countries and languages using a non-Latin alphabet or other kind of writing system.
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** I have found that adding an additional keyboard setting is *very* difficult
 
* Keyboard sends screen the "erase" key as the ascii code NULL (back erase) and sees "fn+erase" as code DEL (forward erase).
 
* Keyboard sends screen the "erase" key as the ascii code NULL (back erase) and sees "fn+erase" as code DEL (forward erase).
  
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