M6N WXGA - How many colors?!

Greets.

Can someone please tell me how many colors can the tft display show? In the website it says only 256000 (256k) colors. It is a damn small number? Can you choose 32bit in display properties? Is this value only reported to WSXGA at maximum resolution? Os is it reported to all wide monitors in the M6000 series?

Thanks in advance

 

Lol it definetly works just fine with 32bit. Its a damn nice display. 256 bit is almost black and white. All asus laptops and i do mean all are native 32bit. www.geared2play.com

 

great.
well, i was just confused by the following information on asus site
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14.1” XGA & 15.1” XGA/SXGA+ & 15.4” WXGA/WSXGA+ 256K Color Max
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by the way, is the vertical viewing angle good? I had a acer 4002 wlmi and it was always or bright on bottom or dark in top.
Is there a optimal position in the W6N where you can see all the image perfectly?

 

Yeah, the video card is 32 bits but there are no LCD displays that can display them all. 256k colors is the high end for computer/TV LCDs.

old: Sony PCG-GR300P 1.13GHz PIII-M, 512MB
new: Asus M6Ne 2.00GHz P-M, 2GB

 

I wish they sold a 14.1" version of the M6Ne... I would SO buy it [ ]

ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, ASUS Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700

 

Greets.
That's not completely true.
The W1000 series has a 16M color lcd.

 

Sir
That is not correct. The w1n has 32 bit just like all their laps. You need to install the video driver for ati 9600. Until you do that it will only allow 16m colors

 

I wouldn't worry too much about what the ASUS website lists.
The screen looks great and is capable of doing 32-bit colour in Windows...

ASUS M6800Ne, P-M 1.5 Dothan, 512MB Ram, Tohiba Combo drive, Samsung Spinpoint M 40G HDD with 8M cache, Mobility Radeon 9700

 

Nope.
The graphic card output's 32bit but each pixel in the screen can only change to 16.7M different values.
In the M6N, each pixel can only change to 256K color,that is each color subpixel can only output 64 different scale values, even if you send 32bit to the display.
So, W1N display is 24bit and capable of 16.7 Million colors, and M6N display is only 18bit (2^18 = 260K colors). At least, it is listed like that way on asus site :S

 

Ok guys i dont know what the pixel is capable off. I am typing this on an m6ne (15.1") ready to pack it up and send it on its way and i just set the display to 32. Whatever that number means i dont know. I do knopw that when you set the display to 256k it looks almost black and white. To make a long story short all the models from asus have that number 32. Whatever that means, it is the same thing you will see on all new laptops whther they are dell sony or asus. I ve not seen a single unit that has the option for 256k colors since 1994.

 

Greets.
256K colors is 256000 colors that is equal to 18bit.
One thing is the color output of the graphic card, and another is the real color that the monitor itself can output.
I think 256000 of the M6N are no deal-breaker, as our eye is not capable of distinguish all those colors.
But it is a fact that (at least when the M6 series was born) the displays on M6 were only capable of 256000 colors, when other models (such as W1N) or models from other brands are capable of displaying 24bit (16.7 million) colors.
16.7M is currently the high-end for tft monitors. So, even the best monitor can't output 32bit. By the way, 16.7M colors means that all RGB palete is displayed (255 tones of every primary color). 256K means that every primary color can only change to 64 different tones. 32Bit... well... 32Bit is only good with another color space that is not discrete RGB. RGB, as we know it (255 tones of every color) is only capable of 16.7M colors.
The only exception is in graphic applications (D3D or OGL) where you can set the colors with a float precision.