[ltp] New thinkpad models....just when you thought all the bugs had been worked out

[Aaron Mulder]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Chris Penn <cantormath@gmail.com> wrote:
> Those resolutions are far from revolutionary.  My T61p has
> 1920x1200...........am I missing something, or is Lenovo
> downgrading.......

You're missing the W500, which comes after the T61p:
http://shop.lenovo.com/ISS_Static/merchandising/US/PDFs/w500_datasheet.pdf

Thanks,
       Aaron

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> wr=
ote:
>> On mer, 2008-07-23 at 11:00 -0500, Chris Penn wrote:
>>> Other then internals, does anyone know if there are differences
>>> regarding the case or monitor size?  Will these differences be
>>> noticeable?
>>
>> Only widescreen, 14.1 for T400 and 15.4 for T500. Nothing really new I
>> guess. But 1680=D71050 on a 14.1" may be enough for standard screen user=
s .
>>
>> But when I see the resolution choice I'm a bit puzzle:
>>
>> T400 display:
>> WXGA(1280x800,98dpi,185+nit)
>> WXGA+(1440x900,129dpi,200+nit)
>> WXGA+W/lEDBacklight(1680x1050,129dpi,200+nit)
>>
>> Except 1280=D7800, this is nice, especially 1680=D71050.
>>
>> T500 display:
>> WXGA(1280x800,98dpi,185+nit)
>> WSXGA+resolution(1680x1050,129dpi,200+nit)
>> WXGAw/lEDBacklight(1280x800,98dpi,185+nit)
>>
>> This is kind of ridiculous. 12800=D7800 on a 15" laptop?? This is ok for
>> low end laptops, not for thinkpads :)
>>
>>
>> And I wonder how will be managed the "dual display card" thingy,
>> especially in Linux.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Yves-Alexis
>>
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