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I am looking at purchasing a new sealed in the box T60 with a 14"XGA lcd. For my needs I want this display resolution. The seller has two unopened boxes in the model I want. He is willing to open the box and guarantee that the screen does not have more than one dead pixel and that the machine is functioning properly. My dilemna is that I have to pick one box to open. I cannot open both boxes and then choose which one I like better. From the serial numbers the machines have identical parts except that one has a Samsung lcd - 13n7051 and one has a CMO lcd - 13n7051. Any comments or thoughts on which screen is better would be greatly appreciated. The Samsung screen has been getting a bad rap lately in the widescreen version. Wondering if maybe should go for the CMO lcd? But then again, the 14" xga screen in a thinkpad I have never heard of anything bad about any of them - so maybe go for the Samsung. Samsung being a name more familiar with. Love to hear comments on which screen to get or comments about your screen.

T2400(1.83GHz), 1GB RAM, 60GB 5400rpm HD, 14.1in 1024x768 LCD, 64MB ATI Radeon X1300, CDRW/DVD, Intel 802.11abg wireless, Bluetooth/Modem, 1Gb Ethernet, UltraNav, Secure chip, Fingerprint reader, 6c Li-Ion batt, WinXP Pro

Thankyou for taking the time out of your day to read my post.

I have the CMO LCD in my Thinkpad T60 XGA that will be arriving tomorrow so if nobody answers by then I can give you feedback. I'm just pumped because the model that is coming for me has the NMB keyboard instead of the Chicony. The Chicony was in the T60 I returned last week and it felt pretty cheap. Hopefully the NMB is better as a lot of people seem to think.

I just opened my T60 XGA and I can say the CMO LCD looks just fine. The screen is bright (even in a brightly lit office) and backlighting seems pretty even. Also, the keyboard in this T60 feels much more solid than it did on the one before. I guess those NMB keyboards really are better!

Oh, and I'm lovin' the XGA screen. I can actually read it from more than a foot away... yes, I need better glasses haha.

They are comparable I believe. I used TMD and Samsung 1400*1050 panels. I slightly prefer the Samsung one.