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Subject: 
UXGA (1600x1200) notebooks
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Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:16:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
Has anyone here bought a UXGA notebook and are they happy with the refresh?

"UXGA" a name for a screen resolution, not a brand name...just in case there
was any confusion.  :-)

CGA  => 320x200
VGA  => 640x480
SVGA => 800x600
XGA  => 1024x768
SXGA => 1400x1050
UXGA => 1600x1200

I just noticed that Dell is beginning to sell UXGA notebooks.  I wonder how
easy they are on the eyes -- mostly a problem of refresh rate, I think.

On a 15" viewable area display, 1600x1200 would be ~133 dpi -- probably
acceptable.  (Need to go to a 20" to hit 100 dpi at 1600x1200 -- not too
likely to happen on a notebook. :-)  Comparatively, a 15" viewable area at
1400x1050 is ~117 dpi.

The most readable 1024x768 display I've ever seen was, surprisingly, not
a 14" TFT and not a 15" TFT, but a 13" TFT on a Sony Vaio -- super crisp,
super rock solid refresh rate, perfect white, and almost no visible
gridlines.  13" at 1024x768 is ~98 dpi, so I'm thinking that 100 dpi
is a great target.

Question is, how smooth is the refresh on a state-of-the-art 15" TFT at
1600x1200?  I saw a 14" TFT at 1400x1050 with noticable flicker.  Didn't
have time to mess with the contrast knobs, unfortunately -- store was
closing.

Any good or bad experiences out there with SXGA (1400x1050) or UXGA
(1600x1200) TFT displays?

--Todd



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  Re: UXGA (1600x1200) notebooks
 
(...) Isn't the refresh rate 60Hz on all LCDs? (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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  Re: UXGA (1600x1200) notebooks
 
[following up on an earlier post...] (...) I got sick of doing calculations by hand, so I made a chart that shows a screen's DPI, given a diagonal measurement and a standard resolution: (URL) The most readable 1024x768 display I've ever seen was, (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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Has anyone here bought a UXGA notebook and are they happy with the refresh? --Todd (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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