any ETA on T61p w/ WSXGA+ screen?

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kenyee · #1 Post by **kenyee** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:27 pm

this article mentions "late availability" but I haven't been able to find anything out from Lenovo reps at the 800 number besides the typical response of "we only know about the WUGA one and that's it"

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs. ... p-thinkpad

Daniel · #2 Post by **Daniel** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:54 am

Bump? I'm looking for one.

kenyee · #3 Post by **kenyee** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:12 am

Daniel: have you tried pestering Lenovo reps on the 800#?
I'm curious if they give conflicting answers

kenyee · #4 Post by **kenyee** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:21 pm

Just for yucks, I called their 877 number again and asked a "rep" and he said if anything late september (aka, "let me pull a date out of my ... so it seems like I know something"

Emailed their web site contact address so they'd have time to research this and the only thing I got back was a msg that it's only for problems w/ the web site and I should call the 877 number and ask.

So the answer is "no clue". Hopefully, it'll be soon since the SXGA+ displays have finally been released for the regular T61. I don't see what's so hard about slapping a WSXGA+ display on a T61P where there are currently supply issues w/ the WUXGA display

Liamo0o · #5 Post by **Liamo0o** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:42 pm

eh d oyou think they will ever have a SXGA+ for T61p? (on the website it says WUXGA and WSXGA only... by the way why do you want a WSXGA+? doesnt that have a lower res than WUXGA?

dagordon · #6 Post by **dagordon** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:08 pm

Liamo0o wrote:eh d oyou think they will ever have a SXGA+ for T61p? (on the website it says WUXGA and WSXGA only... by the way why do you want a WSXGA+? doesnt that have a lower res than WUXGA?

Yes, WSXGA+ is lower resolution than WUXGA. But for many people, myself included, higher resolution, after a point, is undesirable, as text will be too small unless Windows' DPI scaling feature is used, which isn't so great. There is much discussion about this issue.

WUXGA on a 15.4" display is 147ppi, which for many of us will result in an unpleasant viewing experience, again unless DPI scaling is used.

Please note that when I say that text will be too small unless DPI scaling is used, I do not mean to suggest that it is a necessary consequence of higher resolution that text gets smaller -- that it is intrinsic to the notion of higher resolution that text gets smaller -- but rather that, as a matter of contingent fact (due to the Windows operating system's assumption of 96ppi) this is so.

paOol · #7 Post by **paOol** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:16 pm

dagordon wrote:
Liamo0o wrote:eh d oyou think they will ever have a SXGA+ for T61p? (on the website it says WUXGA and WSXGA only... by the way why do you want a WSXGA+? doesnt that have a lower res than WUXGA?
Yes, WSXGA+ is lower resolution than WUXGA. But for many people, myself included, higher resolution, after a point, is undesirable, as text will be too small unless Windows' DPI scaling feature is used, which isn't so great. There is much discussion about this issue.

If the resolution is too high, cant you just go to video properties and lower them? that way you wouldn't have to deal with windows DPI and you can switch back to higher resolution anytime you want.

dagordon · #8 Post by **dagordon** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:24 pm

paOol wrote:
dagordon wrote: Yes, WSXGA+ is lower resolution than WUXGA. But for many people, myself included, higher resolution, after a point, is undesirable, as text will be too small unless Windows' DPI scaling feature is used, which isn't so great. There is much discussion about this issue.

If the resolution is too high, cant you just go to video properties and lower them? that way you wouldn't have to deal with windows DPI and you can switch back to higher resolution anytime you want.

Running an LCD display at a non-native resolution results in things looking crappy.

Daniel · #9 Post by **Daniel** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:55 am

Also, for those of us that game, having a high resolution LCD means poor gaming performance. To have to downgrade resolutions would result in poor image quality.

kenyee · #10 Post by **kenyee** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:11 pm

Ditto on more readable text and faster gaming. Scaling on an LCD screen is horrible. Try it on your desktop LCD and see how fuzzy everything comes out...

kenyee · #11 Post by **kenyee** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:30 pm

Finally got a reply on this. It's finally available. There are no standard models, so you have to build a custom model. How you do this on their web site, I have no bloody clue, so if anyone know, please pipe in...

ken

Daniel · #12 Post by **Daniel** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 6:01 am

I don't see it either. Keep us updated.

any ETA on T61p w/ WSXGA+ screen?

any ETA on T61p w/ WSXGA+ screen?

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