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post #61 of 93
5/21/04 at 11:25pm
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Originally Posted by MagicRobin
Chickenmaster, sorry to be blunt, but this is BS.

Sager has no model with an SXGA screen, and I should know, since I purchased the now-discontinued 8890 that is the only model in the Sager line that had an SXGA screen.

For anything higher than XGA, Dell doesn't sell anything else than wide screens.
Two Sager laptop models with SXGA:

http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=4080

http://www.sagernotebook.com/pages/n...oductType=5690
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post #62 of 93
5/21/04 at 11:47pm
Thread Starter 
Wow, you found my ancient RAID thread. I still think it is an overhyped technology that is rendered useless to average users by their lack of knowledge.

You know, now that I think about it, you could draw a correlation between one overhyped, over marketed device/technology and another. I am still frustrated by the RAID controller in my notebook and wish that it wouldn't do such as piss poor job of emulating UDMA 5 as my boot time would be about 30 sec faster. However the OPTION is nice, as I don't have to use it in RAID mode.

Now if RAID were like screens, then the controller in my notebook would only work in one mode, and only in that mode with no offerings in other configurations. And as soon as another RAID mode is made available, say RAID 0+1, then the old option of RAID 0 or RAID 1 would be removed. Thus forcing the user to own 2+ hard drives in a certain configuration.

Thank god that RAID manufacturors have some kind of common sence and make RAID controllers in many formats. So problem averted.

Go, I'm tired of having my options taken away from me especially for techology that works. This is not a case of the Kinko's customers asking for typewritters, this is a case of the tech manufacturors putting the cart before the horse and then burning the bridge behind them.
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post #63 of 93
5/22/04 at 12:01am
Thread Starter 
Ah yes, the old "blanket statements thread. Yes, good times, good times. Now a real blanket statement would be if I had started off saying that:

All UXGA screens and higher suck.

But did I? No, I pointed out the difficulty of many users with ultra high res screens and reading text and stuff. I even included a source (see I learn from my lessons). See page 3 and 4 of the article on page one of this thread where the author states that Dell is/was having serious issues with their customers complaining about their screens and how they couldn't see anything without altering the dpi settings in the Registry (boy, that's a fun task for a noob: now which key was that again; and what's hexidecimal?).
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post #64 of 93
5/22/04 at 12:07am
Thread Starter 
Oh, and exe you're wrong again. You see, the 4080 USED to have the SXGA screen, but now its been replaced with the SXGA+ screen higher resolution. The same for the 5690. Note again, its the ONLY choice. Oh, wait the 5690 also has the UXGA screen too.
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post #65 of 93
5/22/04 at 12:08am
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Originally Posted by MagicRobin
Chickenmaster, sorry to be blunt, but this is BS.

For anything higher than XGA, Dell doesn't sell anything else than wide screens.
Dell with SXGA:

Inspiron 600M: http://catalog.us.dell.com/CS1/cs1pa...421&l=en&s=dhs

Inspiron 5150: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...=19&l=en&s=dhs
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post #66 of 93
5/22/04 at 12:11am
Thread Starter 
Yet again, only SXGA+ or XGA on 14.1" screens (600m) and 15" screens (5150).
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post #67 of 93
5/22/04 at 12:19am
I guess "+" is a really difficult thing to accept for some. Well, there are those 3 pages I linked, look in there, I'm sure a handful will be non +.
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post #68 of 93
5/22/04 at 7:42am
exe,

Just as SEMC pointed out, none are SXGA. All are SXGA+, even if it isn't clearly stated.

The page http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_a...ga/page_id=13/ contains a list of notebooks that are listed as SXGA. They aren't, though. I have randomly checked a few that stated "SXGA" and yet their actual resolution is 1400x1050. Check for yourself.

If you have time to lose, find me a notebook that states in the specifications "SXGA: 1280x1024". I can bet all I want that you won't find one.

There is no notebook with a SXGA resolution apart the Acer. Just take my word for it. I have been searching a laptop for 2 months with an SXGA screen before I found the Sager 8890 that is now discontinued. This is because manufacturers stopped doing it - simply because wide-screen is more profitable. Acer's work around was to put a "desktop LCD", thus the 17" size.

For your information, since I had no other choice, I decided to go for a nc8000 with a 15" SXGA+ screen. I will receive my notebook soon, so I will share my impressions on this forum , but I took SXGA+ because there was nothing else.

And it wasn't really easy to find this one, since most high-performance Centrino notebooks are wide-screen. This is a typical case where marketing is "creating" a new standard: no one asked for wide-screen, yet eventually it's going to be standard because there will be no other choice.
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post #69 of 93
5/22/04 at 12:57pm
I hadn't realize this little '+' thing before. I guess you're right they don't make them anymore. Hmm. Do look in that monitor tables I linked to, maybe you could go for a larger screen with WXGA to get to the same ppi as a 17"LCD acer for 'comfort of eye' comparison. That acer would be at 96ppi, which is close to a 17" ZD7000 WXGA which is at 100ppi, or you want to try a 16" SXGA+ from Sony GRT series for 109ppi. It will be 'better' than your 117ppi 15" nc8000.

If all else fails and even after adjusting what you can under windows, try this software. It claims to be able to get you back to 85ppi. There is a 30 day free trial; I am using their 'rotate' software, and they have good updates/support. (That rotate software is included in many high end, or maybe now mid end, desktop LCDs that have physical rotate feature, so they are not a fly by night software firm)

http://personalcomputing.portrait.co..._overview.html
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post #70 of 93
5/23/04 at 1:34am
Thread Starter 
Thanks for the post, I'll have to try it out.
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post #71 of 93
5/24/04 at 7:11am
Sorry if this is redundant, but is Sager/PCTorque even offering the 1440x900's on the 8790's anymore? There used to be an option to choose, but now they only seem to offer the other one.
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post #72 of 93
5/24/04 at 11:22pm
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Originally Posted by SEMC
By the way Fried Toast, what's the difference between FireFox and Mozilla? Which is better? Today I had a computer friend recommend FireFox to me to replace IE as it reduces the spyware/pop-ups, and loads pages differently.
Mozilla is the entire software structure, including e-mail, newsgroup readers, irc software, etc. etc. etc. Lots of stuff.

Firebird is just the browser itself stripped out of the mozilla package.
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post #73 of 93
5/25/04 at 12:52am
I'm not sure what's different, but the Mozilla browser and the Firefox browser aren't the exact same. Firefox comes skinned and the bookmarks are done differently, too. There might be other differences as well. I'm at work on lunch break, so don't have time to look it up properly.
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post #74 of 93
5/26/04 at 1:24am
Thread Starter 
I like the FireFox browser and have replaced IE. Thanks for the info. Btw, Firefox automatically imports all of your bookmarks from IE.
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post #75 of 93
5/26/04 at 8:37am
Good to see another convert (Kind of like seing someone go from a brand-name lappie to a Sager notebook ) Once you get used to the tabbed browsing, you'll look back and wonder how you ever did w/o it.

Ctrl+T will be your friend.
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post #76 of 93
6/27/04 at 7:54pm
Has anyone tried upping the font dpi?? That makes text more than readable at 1600x1200 and up. Set it to 120dpi and be thankful you have a reason to do so, fonts look much prettier.
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post #77 of 93
6/28/04 at 12:22am
My only complaint about high res screens is that alot of the new games that I'd like to play on it won't be playable at that high a resolution, and shrinking it down makes it look a bit not nice. Reading text at 1680x1050 is no problem for me as long as I have my glasses on. Even my parent's who have a sxga+ 15" screen don't complain about the text when its at 120dpi.
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post #78 of 93
6/28/04 at 9:25am
change dpi settings
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post #79 of 93
6/28/04 at 9:50am
Agree with the original post, the new super hi res are difficult to read, and when sun,/light conditions are not good, are quite impossible to use.

One solution which might help some is to use bigger fonts and toggle antilialiasing on.

My own problem is that is do a lot of programming and in the sources, fonts are not scalable so that i'm not happy with this new hi res screen thing.

1280 /1024 is enough for most of us i think.

Id like to chose my screen res when buying a 2500$+ machine..
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post #80 of 93
6/28/04 at 11:46pm
all I wanna know is, how does the 8790 look in 1024x768
thank you in advance
Kevin
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