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Notebook LCD Screens

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Beethoven

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Help!!

Can someone explain the difference between all the types of LCD screens on notebooks. I've seen XGA, active-matrix, Super XGA, XGA+, and Ultra XGA.

I am looking at buying a cheap notebook, either the Toshiba Satelite 1805 or the HP Pavillion ZE1100. Both are around $1000. The Toshiba comes with an TFT active-matrix display, and the HP with a TFT XGA display, both 14.1".

Any suggestions on low-end laptops would be welcome too. 🙂

Thanks!
 


<< Help!!

Can someone explain the difference between all the types of LCD screens on notebooks. I've seen XGA, active-matrix, Super XGA, XGA+, and Ultra XGA.
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OK, XGA, SXGA, XGA+ and Ultra XGA all refer to the the native resolution of the laptop LCD

Active matrix and TFT are really one and the same. i would be interested in knowing the XGA/SXGA/SXGA+/UltraXGA rating of the laptop, rather than active-matrix 🙂

XGA = 1024x768
SXGA = ???? 1200x1024??
SXGA+ = 1400x1050
UltraXGA = 1600x1200

At anything less than the native res of an LCD, the image becomes distorted or it dosen't fill the whole screen. The distortion is mimized at a res that is exactly half of the native res. There is no distortion at the native res.
 
Just so you know, the Toshiba LCD is XGA as well. In fact, all TFTs 13.3" and larger should be at least XGA.
 
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