Re: IBM Thinkpad A31p

"Chip Orange" <> wrote in message
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> One person finally said "I'll look into it and call you back" , and she did
> give me a definative sounding answer. She said any A series display with a
> resolution of 1400 or higher, and a size of 15" or higher, will be flexview.

Actually only 15" the 1600x1200 displays on TP A31p are FlexView. I use an A31p with
15" FlexView and an A31 with 15" 1400x1050 and the difference is quite obvious i.e.
the FlexView screen can be viewed from many angles whereas the regular display is
best viewed "straight up" although there are no major differences in contrast,
brightness or sharpness. Some people find the 1600x1200 resolution too limiting due
to its small type size...

<>emeL<>

eMeL wrote:

> Actually only 15" the 1600x1200 displays on TP A31p are FlexView. I
> use an A31p with 15" FlexView and an A31 with 15" 1400x1050 and the
> difference is quite obvious i.e. the FlexView screen can be viewed
> from many angles whereas the regular display is best viewed "straight
> up" although there are no major differences in contrast, brightness
> or sharpness. Some people find the 1600x1200 resolution too limiting
> due to its small type size...

So there's no Flexview screens for the T40's?

I wonder why they don't make Flexview versions of XGA and SXGA+ screens
in addition to the 15" UXGA ones...

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Sorry, I have to disagree; I have a 2652 m5u (maybe no longer sold), and it
has a max res of 1400, and it is a flexview screen (same test you did, I had
it side-by-side with an a31 that did not have flexview and it's obvious).

Chip


"eMeL" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Chip Orange" <> wrote in message
> news:3ef8541e$...
> > One person finally said "I'll look into it and call you back" , and she
did
> > give me a definative sounding answer. She said any A series display
with a
> > resolution of 1400 or higher, and a size of 15" or higher, will be
flexview.
>
> Actually only 15" the 1600x1200 displays on TP A31p are FlexView. I use
an A31p with
> 15" FlexView and an A31 with 15" 1400x1050 and the difference is quite
obvious i.e.
> the FlexView screen can be viewed from many angles whereas the regular
display is
> best viewed "straight up" although there are no major differences in
contrast,
> brightness or sharpness. Some people find the 1600x1200 resolution too
limiting due
> to its small type size...
>
> <>emeL<>
>
>
>

> Some people find the 1600x1200 resolution too limiting due
> to its small type size...

This is easy to fix; it's a shame that these machines come set up with such
inappropriate default display settings.

First, switch Windows into 120 DPI mode instead of its default 96 DPI mode.
(Display control panel, Settings tab, Advanced button.) That will fix the
type size in most applications.

Also make sure ClearType is turned on (Appearance tab, Effects button), and
then use the Appearance tab, Advanced button to customize the type sizes
that Windows uses for screen elements. Set everything to the Verdana font
(the most readable display font), with a size between 8 and 11 depending on
what suits your eyes.

The last thing is to deal with the millions of EVIL websites that use small,
fixed pixel size fonts. These sites are designed by clueless 25-year-olds
with perfect eyes who run 21" monitors at low resolution. Unfortunately,
Internet Explorer provides no way to override this short of overriding all
type sizes with the Accessibility options. However, Mozilla Firebird
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/) lets you use Ctrl+Plus to
increase the type size of any site on the fly. (I think Netscape does this
too, but I've never liked Netscape much--I do like Firebird though.)

-Mike