XGA Projector use for presentations with SXGA+ laptop?

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dfumento · #1 Post by **dfumento** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:57 pm

I am planning on getting an SXGA+ laptop and was wondering how well this would work giving presentations on an XGA or even SVGA projector. Any comments? TIA

Puppy · #2 Post by **Puppy** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:07 pm

It is very easy if you use IBM/Lenovo Presentation Director software http://www.lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=128

pibach · #3 Post by **pibach** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:14 pm

works effortless also without ThinkVantage bloat in Vista or XP and also in Ubuntu (I use all 3).

Puppy · #4 Post by **Puppy** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:36 pm

pibach wrote:works effortless also without ThinkVantage bloat in Vista or XP

Hm, I'm wondering how to get dual display (not second monitor) in Windows XP easily without the ThinkVantage software ?

ducky2802 · #5 Post by **ducky2802** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:19 pm

right click your desktop and configure the dual display in xp natively. But the presentation director works better in my opinion and doesnt bloat it too much.

dfumento · #6 Post by **dfumento** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:09 pm

Thank you. I'm aware of the Thinkvantage Presenter program, but I was wondering how well the pictures displayed by the projectors come out when the laptop is not the same native resolution as the projector (e.g. mapping an SXGA+ laptop onto an XGA or SVGA projector). Has anyone tried this to see how well it works out? TIA

Puppy · #7 Post by **Puppy** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:52 pm

The VGA output and Windows desktop have always the exact projector resolution when selected. As for notebook display, you can choose between expanding the lower resolution to SXGA+ or to center it without expanding.

awolfe63 · #8 Post by **awolfe63** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:24 am

You don't want to let the projector scale down SXGA+ even if it can do it. The picture is awful. Set both screens for XGA and it will work fine.

I don't know why anyone calls Presentation Director bloatware. It uses 0 CPU cycles until you open it and it uses like 1MB on disk.

dfumento · #9 Post by **dfumento** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:49 pm

awolfe63 wrote:You don't want to let the projector scale down SXGA+ even if it can do it. The picture is awful. Set both screens for XGA and it will work fine.

Thanks...just to be certain that I understand...I can change the SXGA laptop to have an XGA screen resolution while I do the presentation and that should work fine....right? Have you tried this? TIA

awolfe63 · #10 Post by **awolfe63** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:28 pm

I do it often. As mentioned - presentation manager has a preset for it - otherwise you can do it in the control panels.

Got a new XGA projector this morning. Works great with SXGA thinkpads.

commander · #11 Post by **commander** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:14 pm

awolfe63 wrote:I do it often. As mentioned - presentation manager has a preset for it - otherwise you can do it in the control panels.

Got a new XGA projector this morning. Works great with SXGA thinkpads.

Same there, I have SXGA laptop and XGA benq projector and with presentation manager it works perfectly.

aviography · #12 Post by **aviography** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:56 pm

My T60 is 1680x1050 resolution, I change the "Display Property" from Control Panel to 1024x768 when I use the T60 with an external projector, works flawlessly.

The only downside of this approach is that my desktop icons got all rearranged when I go back to the native resolution after the presentation..........

dfumento · #13 Post by **dfumento** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:46 pm

Great! Thanks! Which XGA projectors do you use and why? TIA

aviography · #14 Post by **aviography** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:20 pm

I actually have no idea which projector that one is as it is in a location I go to at times and is mounted on the ceiling.

I have also used the same set-up at work with a 4 year old Sony LCD projector of 800x600 without any issues.

XGA Projector use for presentations with SXGA+ laptop?

XGA Projector use for presentations with SXGA+ laptop?

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