You cannot specify the internal components you get when you order the system.

The X1 is an interesting mention with the 9300 - they're hardly competitive products. Do you need a large screen, with the compromise of a heavy bulky system, or a small ultraportable with less speed, video performance, etc?

The X1 and 9300 are like apples and oranges feature-wise.

I have a Samsung WUXGA screen on mine, and have no problems with it.

some people only write those because they are peev'ed off because theirs accidently broke, they probably dropped it or something... dang complainers

If you have 200 dollars to waste on a screen with a bit higher of resolution, then go ahead, but its not necssary in my opinion. I forget what the res is for the cheaper monitor, but its WELL enough for me thats for sure.


Chris

WXGA vs. WUXGA.

From my point of view there are two major considerations for choosing which one best meets your needs.

1) How much information do you desire to display on the screen at same time.
2) How good is your eye sight.

If you want the ability to display more content on screen at once and your eye sight is good the WUXGA is my choice.  Otherwise WXGA.  Given same size screen a higher pixel count will mean smaller text.  So your eye sight needs to be good. 

I have 8600 WUXGA (15.4 inch wide screen) and love it, but I have better than 20/20 vision.  The larger 17 inch screen of the 9300 would make it even better though.

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Message Edited by St. John 15.13 on 09-06-2005 11:44 AM

Hes basically saying the more expensive monitor has a higher resolution resulting in everything being crisper and SMALLER mainly. The higher the resolution, the smaller the objects are on the screen.


Chris

What exactly do you mean by perfect eyesight? I have perfect eyesight for nearby objects, but I cannot see distant objects 100% (I sometimes wear glasses just to view projectors). Is this sufficient to get a WUXGA? Also is it true that the TrueLife LCDs reduce glare/reflection?

I don't know if you've bought one yet, but I have the WXGA and I have slight light leak at bottom of screen (not sure if this is normal).  I've had mine about 30 days, and have not dropped it or abused it in any way.

My eyesight is starting to fail, so I find the native res very hard to read; I had to lower it, so it's not as clear as "native", but easier to read.  Also, changed to large fonts (dpi) and that helped.

On the downside, I feel there is a bright glare being so close to the screen (vs. my desktop flat panel).  Now knowing this, I might have opted for the WUXGA since it did appear to have less glare (XPS at mall kiosk).

I read somewhere else on here that a person with not-perfect eyesight got the WUXGA and just switched to larger fonts and lower res and that seemed to work.

I dont think there is a light leak at all, I'll just have to see when I get mine in the mail.