From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Tue Feb 10 1998 - 00:33:26 EST
On Mon, 9 Feb 98 12:12:07 HST, David Ross wrote:
>> Note that once we get to 1280 x 960 screens, things look at lot better,
>> because you can pixel double old 640 x 480 images.
>
>this would be useful, especially if the pixels are small enough so that
>the resulting characters aren't too chunky (as they are when I stretch
>640x480 to full screen on a 800x600 laptop).
>
>> Well if you want to have the sun blaring on the screen, that would be
>> uncomfortable, but then sitting in the blaring sun is not my idea of fun
>> either :-)
>
>When you live in the tropics, you get used to it!
>
>Until the 770, the brightest TFT screen I'd ever seen was on the TI Travelmate
>60x0 series - this was the dominant reason my wife bought a 6030. In fact, I
>think the 6030 screen is at most marginally less bright than the 770, though
>I think at full brightness it is less sharp. When indoors, she cuts the
>brightness down to about 2/3 maximum - the only laptop I've ever used where
>dimming was called for! However, even this machine is barely usable on our
>deck at midday, no matter whether the sun is behind, at the side, or ahead
>of the user.
>
>It would be interesting to try one of the projector-back Thinkpads; I wonder
>why they haven't extended the idea to the whole line.
>
Maybe cost and durability? I would imagine that those machines would
be more fragile than the regular ThinkPads.
>> <<Does anyone know when the new HP/Mitsubishi 3 pound mag-alloy laptops
>> will be hitting the stores?
>> >>
>>
>> You can get the Japanese model today, it will run US systems fine.
>
>Hmmm - I'll have to spend a day down in Waikiki this week, to see if any
>of the Japanese tourists has one I can try:-)
>
Heh heh heh...
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