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17" Sager - your thoughts

post #1 of 9
3/8/03 at 8:19am
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Personally, I would love to see a 17" Sager with 3+ Ghz, 800 bus, and whatever the best graphics card is at the time.

It wouldn't matter it it was thicker and more bulky than the competition - it will also certainly be more powerful.

Apple were first to announce a 17inch (which no one has yet seen), now Dell are said to be about to announce theirs. Sager seem quick to adopt and adapt to the latest and greatest, so was just wondering what everyone thinks and what a possible time-frame could be.

Of course, not everyone likes the wide aspect ratio, but for the kind of work I do, it would be excellent. It also seems to be a start of a trend, which often means: if you build it - they'll buy it.

Haven't seen anything on Clevo's website but that doesn't mean anything.

What are your thoughts?
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post #2 of 9
3/8/03 at 11:28am

Re: 17" Sager - your thoughts

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Of course, not everyone likes the wide aspect ratio, but for the kind of work I do, it would be excellent.
I think you hit the nail on the head. For doing any sort of content creator work, eg. big spreadsheets, graphics, video, desktop pub, programming, where there are lots of palletes, a widescreen is certainly desirable. Content users on the other hand such as gamers pointed out a normal 4:3 aspect monitor is best because typically games are designed for that. For example, when I play Age of Mythology using my Sony wide monitor, the side edges are unused. "Normal" is only for the time being as I'm certain what is considered "wide" today will be the norm.
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post #3 of 9
3/8/03 at 11:46am
My take on the whole "widescreen" laptop (or desktop LCD, to a degree) is that they seem to be "half-height" LCD's. I mean, they will say 17-inch, but we all know that's measured diagonally, so a 17-inch widescreen is MUCH shorter than a 17-inch 4:3 monitor. Thus, when I hear "17-inch widescreen" I think "Ah, a 12x17" or something.

Maybe we should start calling out monitor sizes by their height and width. I mean 12x17 is more honest than 17 inch....

(Of course, I do not know that a 17" widescreen is 12" tall, that was a guesstimate on my part)

-myrkat
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post #4 of 9
3/8/03 at 12:11pm
I'm sure at some point a widesceen sager will be released. The general trend in mobile computing is shifting towards widescreen displays. Software, games in particular, should eventually catch up and offer widescreen modes. It's only a matter of time.
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post #5 of 9
3/8/03 at 12:21pm
Correct, displays in general are shifting towards a widescreen ratio. Computers are simply following the trend and software is going to have to adapt. More often PC games will start offering 16:9 support.
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post #6 of 9
3/8/03 at 12:25pm
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Originally posted by hayesb2
Correct, displays in general are shifting towards a widescreen ratio. Computers are simply following the trend and software is going to have to adapt. More often PC games will start offering 16:9 support.
Sure, this will happen when televisions are offered in 16:9 only...

As much as I'd like to see that, there will be a long while inbetween "market leaders" of display ratios. 4:3 will be here as long as VCR's and cassette tapes have been here.

Sure, in 20 years, they won't likely be around, but until then, don't hold your breath.

-myrkat
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post #7 of 9
3/8/03 at 12:41pm
This is why most games will eventually adapt both modes 4:3 display modes and 16:9 modes. Most apps and games should be relatively easy to add this mode. Once the more popular games offer these modes people will lap it up since this always (as far as I know in games that have it) involves extending the horizontal viewing plane rather than cropping the vertical. Everyone wants to see more on screen
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post #8 of 9
3/8/03 at 4:23pm
The sooner the switch to 16x9 the better. I have been shooting minidv since 1998 in this format, HDTV uses this/same as the movie theatre. Most of the US will be switched over to 16x9 in broadcast media by 2006-7 (4x3 will cease) so it would be nice to see the next Sager 9xxx @ 18"X10.20" (went it comes down to it we ALL are really just waiting for a plasma display anyway)
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post #9 of 9
3/8/03 at 6:53pm
When games adapt to it so will I

Till then no
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