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Anyone know if this notebook has a dual lamp screen? Anyone that actually owns it can testify how good/bad the screen is? Thanks

Malignant, Jun 17, 2009

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The display is not dual lamp.

Excerpts from various W90 reviews

NBR official review - By Kevin

Display
The ASUS W90 has one of the “all-glass” style of displays, with a sheet of plastic over the LCD. It looks great and gives the notebook a clean appearance, but it increases the amount of reflection by about a factor of 10. Sitting in a bright office setting you can see a perfect reflection of your upper torso in the background. After a while you get used to it and it doesn’t become as much of a problem, but it is worth noting since not everyone likes them. The panel has a 1920x1080 resolution, great for gaming or enjoying a 1080p movie. Colors are bright and vibrant, and contrast is excellent with the glossy panel. Vertical viewing angles are above average with a modest viewing sweet spot before colors start to wash out or invert. Horizontal viewing angles are excellent, but at steep angles you start to see reflections more than the screen.

One odd behavior we noticed during the review was the system wanting to shutoff when the display lid was closed to around a 45 degree angle. Most notebooks detect the screen closing really close to the keyboard, so it was a surprise to find the notebook shutting down when we wanted to move it to another location by slightly closing the screen.

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W90 review - By Vicious

Screen/Monitor:

Oh what a sweet thing it is, if there was any really good point to getting a bigger laptop its for a bigger screen. Just think about it, no matter how fast or powerful your computer is or how high you can turn up your game settings. The monitor is the single most important thing interfacing a game or movie to you, its what is responsible for letting you see all that hard work the computer is doing.

The W90 screen is just so nice. It has a 1920x1080 resolution so you have lots of room to work with for browsing folders, working in photoshop, video editing and web surfing. Really almost anything your doing the larger screen and resolution is going to pay off in some way.

Getting into the details of the screen, in my benchmarks it tested to a A+ level, the color gradients were the smoothest I have ever seen in a laptop screen. Definitely on par with high end desktop screens. The gradients are so good that the .jpg images you see in the review can not even accuratly represent what you see in real life as there is loss of color & quality. Response time is also faster than the past monitors I have used.

You will find many debates about the change from 16:10 to 16:9 resolution, some will say its bad and some will say its good. For the sake of review we will just take it for what it is. I personally like 16:9 its just more appeasing to the eyes for some reason and its nice when you watch a widescreen movie to make use of the entire screen. The A1 model does have a built in blueray player so it is meant to watch movies on.

I think that this resolution is perfect for this size of screen, if the screen was any smaller I think it would be too much and hard to work with, any less and you would be taking something great away frorm the screen. There is also one more really neat thing about this screen that I have never seen before.

You know when you go to clean your screen with a cloth to get the dust off and while the middle gets clean easy most of the dust just gets pushed to the edge of the screen and caught between the bezel and the screen surface? Well no more! The entire inside lid area of the W90 is 1 solid piece of glass, meaning the screen and bezel are both covered so when you wipe it off there is nowhere for dust to get trapped, its just like cleaning off a window, letting you keep that great screen looking great.

Oh I should mention its a glossy screen or rather the glass over it makes it glossy. I am not the biggest fan of glossy screens but its pretty much the norm these days and I have gotten used to it.

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David, Jun 17, 2009

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I was browsing Xoticpcs site and noticed on their configuration page for w90vp-a1 it says dual lamp unless thats a typo. The one on newegg is 1920x1200 and the ones in the reviews you posted are 1920x1080. So I'm still not sure.

Malignant, Jun 17, 2009

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Newegg has alot of misprint... But the 18.4 screen is only available in 1920x1080 here.

1920x1200 might be a W90 17 incher, that is not on the market yet; and proably never will be.

Quicklite, Jun 17, 2009

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