To keep this short,
I own and tried most of the popular laptop brands except for Dell, including:
- HP ZT1290, 1.8ghz northwood, 15" 1400x1050
- Toshiba P100, Core Duo 1.6, 17", 1440x900
- Toshiba U205-S5002, Core Duo 1.66, 12", 1280x800
- Asus F3F, 15", Core 2 Duo 1.66ghz, 1280x800
- Sony UX280P, 4", 1024x600
- Sony BX, 1.73 centrino, 17", 1920x1200
and had the chance to play with more recent Acers and HPs.
I must say, the screen quality of the Sony blew me off the water.
I bought this laptop because it's discontinued due to it's now outdated Centrino 1.73ghz but the price was low, like $900 and I couldn't pass on the offer:
- Centrino 1.73ghz
- 512mb DDR 533mhz, upgraded to 1.5gb DDR2 667 (working at 533 with better timings)
- 80GB Sata 5400rpm, it has 2 hard drive slots, replacing them with 2 x 7200rpm Hitachis soon
- Ati Radeon x700 128mb ddr ram onboard
- Fingerprint reader, XP Pro, Motion Camera!
- 17" WUXGA 1920x1200
Back to the screen. It's amazing. IT's totally out of competition from the other brands and bests my 23" S-IPS Sony P234/B and even my 30" Apple 2560x1600! Features X-Brite (sony's name for dual backlit display). The amazing pixel density, the contrast (black is black on this display!), even light distribution, no leakage, simply leaves one in awe.
The price you pay here is that this beast is not a portable per say, the weight is like 11 pounds (5.5 kg) and the display itself is thick as 3 regular LCDs from other notebook brands.
Downside to my story is, that the battery life is miserable, around 1 hour, and the cooling is done inefficiently, having the fan always ran, maybe because of the Centrino which feels very slow compared to even the lowest specd Core Duo or Core 2 Duo, and can't even properly decode and run X.264 DivX at 1280x720 (lots of dropped frames).
But I picked this laptop because of the display to serve me as a backup computer for my web design work.
Other than that, if you want to buy the perfect desktop replacement, go for the new BX 600 series with Core2Duo and this LCD (17" 1920x1200).
Another pitty is that this comes from Sony, which we all know how much it respects it's costumers.
But anyway, full thumbs up for the Sony BX series with 1920x1200 screens!
I own and tried most of the popular laptop brands except for Dell, including:
- HP ZT1290, 1.8ghz northwood, 15" 1400x1050
- Toshiba P100, Core Duo 1.6, 17", 1440x900
- Toshiba U205-S5002, Core Duo 1.66, 12", 1280x800
- Asus F3F, 15", Core 2 Duo 1.66ghz, 1280x800
- Sony UX280P, 4", 1024x600
- Sony BX, 1.73 centrino, 17", 1920x1200
and had the chance to play with more recent Acers and HPs.
I must say, the screen quality of the Sony blew me off the water.
I bought this laptop because it's discontinued due to it's now outdated Centrino 1.73ghz but the price was low, like $900 and I couldn't pass on the offer:
- Centrino 1.73ghz
- 512mb DDR 533mhz, upgraded to 1.5gb DDR2 667 (working at 533 with better timings)
- 80GB Sata 5400rpm, it has 2 hard drive slots, replacing them with 2 x 7200rpm Hitachis soon
- Ati Radeon x700 128mb ddr ram onboard
- Fingerprint reader, XP Pro, Motion Camera!
- 17" WUXGA 1920x1200
Back to the screen. It's amazing. IT's totally out of competition from the other brands and bests my 23" S-IPS Sony P234/B and even my 30" Apple 2560x1600! Features X-Brite (sony's name for dual backlit display). The amazing pixel density, the contrast (black is black on this display!), even light distribution, no leakage, simply leaves one in awe.
The price you pay here is that this beast is not a portable per say, the weight is like 11 pounds (5.5 kg) and the display itself is thick as 3 regular LCDs from other notebook brands.
Downside to my story is, that the battery life is miserable, around 1 hour, and the cooling is done inefficiently, having the fan always ran, maybe because of the Centrino which feels very slow compared to even the lowest specd Core Duo or Core 2 Duo, and can't even properly decode and run X.264 DivX at 1280x720 (lots of dropped frames).
But I picked this laptop because of the display to serve me as a backup computer for my web design work.
Other than that, if you want to buy the perfect desktop replacement, go for the new BX 600 series with Core2Duo and this LCD (17" 1920x1200).
Another pitty is that this comes from Sony, which we all know how much it respects it's costumers.
But anyway, full thumbs up for the Sony BX series with 1920x1200 screens!
