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post #21 of 31
7/20/05 at 3:47pm
how is the backlighting, is it even?
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post #22 of 31
7/20/05 at 4:01pm
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Backlight

Backlight is even and very bright. Not much "ghosting" when watching DVDs. However, the viewing angle is horrible... almost as bad as my 12 inch iBook G4.
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post #23 of 31
7/20/05 at 4:34pm
just a thought but the m55 is intended alot for students and such and the lack of a wide viewing angle is not necessarily a bad thing. in a business environment or on a plane not having a huge viewing angle is not at all bad, it may be preferable since you dont always want to have someone else reading your info. the guy sitting next to you may not need to have it and indeed it could be a huge problem if he can see it. same thing for those in university....
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post #24 of 31
7/20/05 at 5:23pm
would you consider the m55 pretty good for, lets say photo shop? or web authoring
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post #25 of 31
7/20/05 at 6:13pm
absolutely i would concider it great for that, you dont need a dedicated graphics card for either, but you do need a good screen, good hdd, and a fast processor which the m50/55 has...so yes it would be a good photoshop machine.
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post #26 of 31
7/20/05 at 7:22pm
was just lookin at some m55's at compusa, the screen is very light on the bottom, like bleeding from the bottom, screen colors seem a little darker too
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post #27 of 31
7/20/05 at 7:41pm
For hard core photoshop I think you may want to consider something with higher than wxga resolution. Was it a TruBright screen that you saw? Light leakage will be present to some degree in all matte screens, but I don't know about the trubright ones.
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post #28 of 31
7/20/05 at 7:52pm
yah it was a truebright, almost every 14 inch i've seen has this problem, maybe except the sony s series but that has a totally new set of problems.

problem is , sxga+ resolution is too small, if im making a webpage 72 dpi at sxga+, its too tiny, i dont even know what im doing. if im working in 300 dpi i think almost any res will do cause you can zoom out far, but not with web images. Had this problem while trying the dell 6000 where the res is 1680, not even uxga yet 1920, way too high.
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post #29 of 31
8/28/05 at 12:28am
nice pics!
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post #30 of 31
8/28/05 at 10:54am
thanks for the review!
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post #31 of 31
10/4/08 at 1:23pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fidget View Post
there is not a model with ATI graphics for the m50 or m55 in north america according to both toshiba USA and toshiba Canada.... all m50 and m55 models come with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 w/ 128 mb shared video. thus leading me to find your machine a very odd and confusing thing....
In Europe and Australia/NZ, the M50 can have dedicated graphics (e.g ATI X600SE), but it is the same motherboard as the M55, except they populate diffrent parts of the PCB depending on the specs. The ATI video is a removable module that sits beneath the motherboard.

Look here for an example of an ATI model: http://203.56.127.51/topic/pdf/DOWNL...e_28.07.05.pdf

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Ross..
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