About 17in LCD

gateway m675 17"

i have a gateway with 17" and it ROCKS, the video display kicks alienwares ass all over the place.... however my alienware is faster, having faster cpu, double the ram, double the video ram, etc. I *WISH* I could combine these two and have an alienware 17", sigh, but alas.... for now i gave my gateway as a christmas present, and am keeping the alienware.

you dont want a widescreen monitor for playing games, period, unless the games run at that widescreen rez (natively) which i highly doubt. most 17 inch monitors for laptops only run 900 pixels tall

There is another engineer with a Toshiba 17" system that sits a few offices away from me, everyhing looks kinda funny on it. Most things look stretched, and the quality of the Toshiba is pretty bad, its almost to intense.

It depends on the LCD used by the OEM for the chassis... some brands have better dpi than others, some simply have better displays. Games aren't made for the widescreen (at least not yet) and the resolutions offered simply don't match those used on the traditional LCD screens (sorry guys, not even Apple has matched it yet).

As for the Gateway 17", you can keep it... too bulky to be carted around readily, and the HDs Gway uses have a bad habit of going bad (same with the mobos... STAY AWAY FROM THE ONES USED IN THE 15.7" LAPPYS).

As for Naruto... dude, you have a Chuunin exam to take care of my man... don't want to lose to Sauske, do you?

(PS: It's an anime thing... just the first time I've seen anyone make a Naruto reference on a non-anime board).

Naruto owns.. I haven't watched any episodes in a while.. I go up to where the just finished the thing in the big jungle. With the Earth and Heaven scrolls. I should really watch more, but I dont have time to download things :/

download while you sleep... I mean, comeon, why just leech and run?

I'm a big fan of bit torrent thanks to its emphasis on sharing the file with others while you download

oh im all the way up on episode 62, but i gotta wait to get back to school to download the other ones, direct connect is so much faster than anything else

The 17 inch widscreen LCD as used in the Toshiba, Gateway, Sager 17 inch notebooks is a Philips panel rated at 25ms response. It's pretty similar in most respects to the 16 inch UXGA ALienware currently sell in terms of brightness and viewing angles, but far better for pixel response. Of course the Xbrite Sony screens and the Toshiba Clear superview screens are much much better than any these. Actually, I was pretty shocked at how bad the UXGA 16 incher in the new Alienware is. Considering how expensive this system is the screen is seriously crappy and very unpleasant to use for gaming which is the supposedly the point of the bloody thing. I for one would recommend against buying one for that reason.

Oh, and as for the comment that games don't support widescreen, that is completely incorrect. Most new games support widescreen out of the box, and just about any older game can be tweaked to support widescreen including all quake3 engined games (including Call of Duty etc by a simple config file edit). Even the latest 1.6 version of Counter-Strike natively supports widescreen for god's sake (it looks great at 1920 x 1200 on a 15.4 inch widescreen panel by the way.) The only people I have ever seen saying saying games don't support widescreen are those who have never properly used a widescreen notebook. The Toshiba referenced in the post above was probably being run by some idiot who didn't have it set up correctly, that is a depressingly common situation.

Go here to find out more:

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/

I'm a sager owner (eh and i'm trolling the alienware boards )
anyway the games are fine, you'll notice a little stretching if the game doesn't support widescreen but nontheless it's pretty and it's big.

so if you want widescreen go for it. some games will require a little tweaking to work.