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post #1 of 11
3/21/03 at 5:42am
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Yo,

I love my 5660, don't care about the weight and I can't stop staring at it. My bosses got me all G'd up by loading games for "required gaming".

I can see myself using it for a variety of web development and design but the native resolution of 1600x 1200 is very attractive but distorts what a webpage looks like in a lower resolution. It makes webpages very narrow and small font, even when I increase the font.

Now when I go lower, the resolution is terrible, blurry and nothing like my Sony 14.1 inch.

My question, how can I find a resolution setting that is bigger in scale, i.e. webpages are not tiny type yet not sacrificing crispness. When I design pages, I don't want to be squinting and/or have a false idea of what a normal screen would view it as.

Thanks,

Bruce
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post #2 of 11
3/21/03 at 10:56am
I don't know what driver you use but in my Sager 5660 UXGA screen, when i go to lower resolution(1024x1028) it looks perfect, thanks to ATI scaler. Anyway if you want to get rid of this tiny letters, first go to display control panel>general and make DPI settings higher, then restart computer and adjust further in display propert.>appearance>fonts. And then in IE. View>text size. Hope i didn't forget anything.
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post #3 of 11
3/21/03 at 4:40pm
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do you mean 1280x1024?

Do you mean 1280x1024, because I can't find the resolution you're on. I got all the drivers I think on there. ATI, direct X 8.1 and went into the control panel to mess around.

I like the resolution 1280x1024 in terms of size, but the clarity of my windows interface is crap. I've never had these issues with other laptops. I'm definitely not saying the Sager has a weak resolution, because at 1600x1200 it's friggin' sharp and awesome.

I guess because the Native resolution is so high(1600x1200) that anything lower makes everything else blurry and a bit pixelated kind of looking at a jpeg in increased details as opposed to a vector image.

But please, make 1280x1024 SHARP AND CLEAR!!

Thanks,

Bruce
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post #4 of 11
3/21/03 at 5:43pm
All LCDs naturally look their best at their native resolution unlike CRTs. There's not much you can do if you want to run it outside it's native resolution and want the display as crisp as if it were 1600 X 1200.
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post #5 of 11
3/21/03 at 5:45pm
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Korben

Thanks Adam,

Well I guess that kind of stinks. I guess I'm gonna have to get a CRT screen.

But I'm curious, how did you have it so crisp Korben?

Thanks guys for the support.

Bruce
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post #6 of 11
3/21/03 at 6:00pm

Re: Korben

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Originally posted by ocean158

But I'm curious, how did you have it so crisp Korben?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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post #7 of 11
3/21/03 at 6:24pm
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blew out a pixel

Well,

I guess I shouldn't have been so picky. After messing around with the resolution all morning I blew out a pixel in the middle of my screen. I had finally found a font setting and display that worked and then I noticed a very small red dot in the middle of my screen.

It's small, but red and I notice it. Anyone have this problem? Does it go away?

Oh well, I guess it's covered in the warranty and I'll send it in when I get another bung pixel.

Just to let newbies know, I love my Sager, and bung pixels have plagued me in all my laptops. Regarding the Native resolution, I didn't know what I was getting into, but this laptop is definitely not for the average user. If you want a serious laptop, by far Sager is the way to go.
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post #8 of 11
3/21/03 at 7:12pm
It's a stuck pixel, they're hard to see, but can can with certain background colors. You didn't blow it out, bad pixels either arrive alreay showing up, or do shortly after. If it's in the center of the screen, it's probably covered and you can contact Sager to get it replaced.
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post #9 of 11
3/21/03 at 7:55pm
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stuck pixel

Okay awesome, thanks again Adam and crew. Even if I have a 4 year warranty do I have to send it in within the 30 days?
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post #10 of 11
3/21/03 at 8:04pm
No, but you should to get it taken care of quickly.
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post #11 of 11
3/21/03 at 9:35pm

Re: do you mean 1280x1024?

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Originally posted by ocean158
Do you mean 1280x1024, because I can't find the resolution you're on. I got all the drivers I think on there. ATI, direct X 8.1 and went into the control panel to mess around...
You can always try 800x600 - this way a set of four LCD-pixels make up a resolution-pixel, thus reducing most of the "guesswork" by the computer.

It's a bit small, but there it is.

-myrkat
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