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From: Barry Watzman on 15 Apr 2008 22:41 All current production laptop screens are TFT active matrix and have been so for more than 5 years. NO EXCEPTIONS TruBrite means it's a "glossy finish". Lots of people don't like that, but very few laptops are made these days with a matte finish non-reflective LCD panel. WXGA refers to the resolution (horizontal pixels x vertical pixels) None of the above 3 paragraphs have anything to do with each other. There is no catch; the laptop is reasonably priced for what it is. You can buy new laptops as low as $399-$449, you seem to think that this one is selling for like half of what it should be, it's not. It's a reasonable buy, but it's not shockingly low priced. Silpheed wrote: > > What do you think of the screen: TruBrite TFT active matrix LCD. I notice > that most other laptops has WXGA or something like that. Is it the same? I > guess I'm looking for the catch here. > >
From: M.I.5� on 16 Apr 2008 05:39 "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> wrote in message news:480565ef$0$4104$4c368faf(a)roadrunner.com... > The price is not unusually low. It's ok, but not "alarmingly" low. > > I am not a fan of AMD processors, and generally won't buy such laptops. Is this just a principle thing or do you have a tangible reason. My last dektop had an AMD processor, and I found that it beat the pants off its intel equivalent for most applications, though there were a few where the reverse was true.
From: Barry Watzman on 17 Apr 2008 00:42 Intel processors have been better than AMD since the Core 2 Duo family came out in 2006 M.I.5� wrote: > "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> wrote in message > news:480565ef$0$4104$4c368faf(a)roadrunner.com... >> The price is not unusually low. It's ok, but not "alarmingly" low. >> >> I am not a fan of AMD processors, and generally won't buy such laptops. > > Is this just a principle thing or do you have a tangible reason. My last > dektop had an AMD processor, and I found that it beat the pants off its > intel equivalent for most applications, though there were a few where the > reverse was true. > >
From: Joel Koltner on 21 Apr 2008 15:57
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM(a)neo.rr.com> wrote in message news:480565ef$0$4104$4c368faf(a)roadrunner.com... > The price is not unusually low. It's ok, but not "alarmingly" low. I agree with Barry. You're getting a decent deal there, but this isn't really a particularly "portable" laptop. Knowing Toshiba, they'll have included a low-end battery and your battery life will probably be no more than two hours while, e.g., playing back DVDs of doing something else that's "power" intensive. (The choice of that AMD processor makes it cheaper but sucks a lot more power than Intel Core 2 laptop CPUs.) You're really buying more of a desktop replacement machine here -- it's big enough & heavy enough that you wouldn't want to carry it around on a regular basis. For the older games you mention, the video card will probably be OK at the native 1440x900 resolution. You definitely won't be playing Crysis satisfactorily on this, however. |