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Re: UXGA (1600x1200) notebooks
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sun, 11 Feb 2001 19:51:56 GMT
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[following up on an earlier post...]
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
> > Has anyone here bought a UXGA notebook and are they happy with the refresh?
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> "UXGA" a name for a screen resolution, not a brand name...just in case
> there was any confusion. :-)
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> CGA => 320x200
> VGA => 640x480
> SVGA => 800x600
> XGA => 1024x768
> SXGA => 1400x1050
> UXGA => 1600x1200
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> 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.
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> 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.
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:
http://www.lugnet.com/temp/lcddpi.cgi
> 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.
> [...]
A follow-up to that -- I discovered that the Sony VAIO C1VN PictureBook has
a 127 DPI screen -- 1024x480 and 8.9" diagonal -- and it is CRISP! Closest
thing to paper I've ever seen on any display LCD or otherwise, and the
crispness (the lack of vertical and horizontal gridlines) more than makes up
for the smaller size. Readability is outstanding. Eyestrain -- not there.
Ended up falling in love with the C1VN over the past couple of weeks and
picked one up yesterday. Posting from it now under WinME/MSIE5.5. Prolly
will install Linux on it later and have a dual boot so I can still watch
DVD's, although MSIE5.5 is really, really sweet.
The C1VN has 8MB of video display RAM, so it actually can power an external
display at 1600x1200 in 32-bit color. Runs DVDs smoothly in 24-bit color
and full-screen 1024x480 with stunning aspect ratio.
I'm running 1600x1200 now on a scrolling virtual 1024x480 screen. That
takes a bit of getting used to, but as I'm getting about 2.5 hours on the
standard battery (and they sell double- and quad-life batteries), I'm a
pretty happy camper with this. This is the laptop I've waited 20 years for.
:-) Now to rip some CD's and get down to work...
--Todd
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| (...) "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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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