What will you use your T61P for?

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Liamo0o · #1 Post by **Liamo0o** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:18 am

For those of you who ordered a T61P (I'm looking at you Garry) - what are you going to be using it for. I'm interested in using it for 3d -- Maya/ photoshop but am wondering what those of you who ordered it think about the widescreen for this purpose.

Thanks

cs120ban · #2 Post by **cs120ban** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:53 am

Liamo0o wrote:For those of you who ordered a T61P (I'm looking at you Garry) - what are you going to be using it for. I'm interested in using it for 3d -- Maya/ photoshop but am wondering what those of you who ordered it think about the widescreen for this purpose.

Thanks

It'll be my mobile workstation. I'll sell my current desktop.

agarny · #3 Post by **agarny** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:24 am

cs120ban wrote:It'll be my mobile workstation. I'll sell my current desktop.

Yes, that's what I have been doing for the last 6 or 7 years: use my laptop as a desktop replacement. It has made my life so much easier! Sure, I have had to always go for a high-end laptop, but that is definitely worthwhile and roughly costs the same (if not less in fact) as having both a high-end desktop and a 'reasonable' laptop.

Anyway, in my case, I will be using my T61p (should arrive on Monday) for developing scientific modelling environments and using those environments. So, intensive computation and graphics.

Liamo0o · #4 Post by **Liamo0o** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:50 am

thank you for you responses but my question is more aimed at what do/would you use a widescreen display for instead of a standard screen - pros cons (what is the resolution o nT61p, I hear complaints about it being too high?)

wearetheborg · #5 Post by **wearetheborg** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:58 am

Liamo0o wrote:thank you for you responses but my question is more aimed at what do/would you use a widescreen display for instead of a standard screen - pros cons (what is the resolution o nT61p, I hear complaints about it being too high?)

How can resolution be too high ? The problem is with XP, it doesnt scale fonts well methinks.
I used WUXGA on a 17" in linux, and it looks frikin awesome.
I use WUXGA for programming, writing, and general web browsing.
It is really helpful to have windows side by side.

kelchm · #6 Post by **kelchm** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:22 am

Liamo0o wrote:(what is the resolution o nT61p, I hear complaints about it being too high?)

1920x1200.

That is rather high. The best solution, is to use the DPI scalling in vista. XP did a horrible job at scaling to DPI, but Vista does a great job, so long as you tell it *not* to use XP style scaling. In fact, Vista will even scale applications like itunes etc that don't scale properly with pure font scaling [xp style].

Pocket Aces · #7 Post by **Pocket Aces** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:14 am

lol, games. TWO MORE DAYS BEFORE MINE SHIPS.

rushdy · #8 Post by **rushdy** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:07 pm

I'm going to replace my current desktop and laptop combo too.

I'll use it for games, development, and plug it into my hifi through the mini dock. I can't wait

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