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I'm holding off buying an X60 mainly in order to be able to get the X60s with Core2Duo and perhaps also if they decide to give the X series the SXGA+ screen like the X60T has. Anyone know if it becomes too small or if it's an improvement?

Thanks

I answered this question in this thread. Let me copy-and-paste it here:


I was looking up DPI values when responding to another thread, and found these:

12.1" XGA (i.e. regular X series): 105.8 DPI
12.1" SXGA+ (i.e. X60 tablet hi res option): 144.6 DPI

To get a sense a of how dense that is, the smallest text I have seen on a laptop screen is the 147.0 DPI of my 15.4" WUXGA Dell Inspiron 6000, and it's not easy to see such small text. The SXGA+ X60 tablet will be barely better. Many people on this forum have complained about the small text on a 15" UXGA screen (133.3 DPI), which is already much bigger than what one will get on the X60 tablet's SXGA+ screen.

I don't mind small text at all. I once owned a WUXGA HP ZT3000, and I just loved the resolution. The text size is a good reason for not wanting one, but there are plenty of us who would sell our XGA X60's in a heartbeat for one with SXGA+.

I have a screen with 220 DPI and i love it to death.

Dont blame it on the Hardware/Screen if the [censored] OS you use can't scale up the fonts and UI in general.

Keep in mind Vista will allow you to scale fonts properly in the OS, without distorting everything else.