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I received a user complaint that the text is blurry on the x61. At first I thought it was an attempt to run at 800x600 and not running native. After receiving the laptop, it looks the same as other x61 units. Is anyone else receiving complaints that the x61 display quality is poorer then previous generation x series laptops? That it isn't as clean and crisp?



We've always gone with the 1024x768 models.

Turn off ClearType.

pianowizard wrote:Turn off ClearType.

We had tried that over the phone. The response was "better but fuzzy" which isn't uncommon from the smoothing effects.

We had the laptop shipped to us. To me, the display looked fine. It was not running in the wrong resolution. What I can say though is the contrast wasn't the best and viewing angles were somewhat small. Compared to a Dell D430, the x60 was better. But I can say a 15" T series display looks better then the x60. I don't have any old x40 or x30 laptops to compare against. At first look it seems as good as ever. I'm not sure if the x61 is using a lower quality LCD then it has in the past or if larger model laptops are just improving their LCDs more.

The feeling from the user is the x series screen quality is suffering. Luckily we've only received one complaint. We made need to investigate the higher quality screen the x61s has available.

Anyone else seem to notice poorer image quality on the x61?

Does anyone have an x30, or x40 they can run side by side to an x61 to see if the 12" LCD quality is changing?

Hello,

I purchased a Lenovo X61 tablet pc back in July 2007 and the screen was fabulous!! The contrast and viewing angles were spectacular. I recently purchased another Lenovo X61 tablet pc last October 22, 2007 with the 1.8 Ghz processor. I was very disappointed with the screen. It was quite grainy and did not have the same crisp screen with really wide viewing angles of the older version. The screens coming out are definitely subpar. I sold the new tablet immediately because of that screen.

Hopefully Lenovo fixes that. I want a tablet with a faster processor but with the same screen as before.

Jonndz wrote:snip.....The screens coming out are definitely subpar. I sold the new tablet immediately because of that screen.....snip

Perhaps the two mentioned tablets had different screen resolution, XGA Vs. SXGA+?

Nope, both tablets were XGA MT/MV screens. The only difference was the processor spees (1.6 and 1.8 Core 2 Duo). Everything else is the same configuration. The screen on the 1.8 newer model is not even close to the crispness and viewing angels of the 1.6 model.