WSXGA, W3V screen resolution

Hi, I have been looking in this forum for a time now, from early january. Because of the great Asus posts and news.
Last year I was close to buy Asus M6N, but I decided to wait for the W1, and now the W3. Damn that the notebooks always get better and better.[ ] And by the way this forum is really good, the very pleasant guy from ProPortable that tells news, and others that have W3 that tells their experience. I was a lot at notebookforum.com before, but they dont even have a own Asus section, im tired of searching thru all the other "general notebook"-post to find hidden Asus posts.

When I wanted to buy the M6N, I definitly wanted the WSXGA screen resolution. But when the beuty W3 came, it only has WXGA, it is kind a downer for me. As I dont want a resolution I could have 2 years ago. And I feel that its a bit small screen area, the height-resolution is a bit to low for me with just WXGA, it cant show as much as WSXGA. Since I normally use 1280*1024.
I have good eyes, and I have no problem with high resolution.

My question for you guys is that do anyone know if the W3V is coming with a WSXGA screen resolution?
But if its not, why cant Asus make a wide-version of V6V? That would be perfect. Thin, powerful wide-screen. A kind of a M6N decendant.

Thanks,
Martin.

 

The W3V will NOT come with WSXGA... I'm 95% certain. The 14" widescreen is small enough already... and adding WSXGA would be overkill for MOST people.

ASUS might make a widescreen V6V... who knows... but we'll have to wait and see. If they do, it won't be for quite a while...
So if you do want WSXGA widescreen, you'll have to live with the Z71v, W1, or others...

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

 

W3 - measure out a 14" widescreen....... technically.. it's got the same height as a 12" screen....... XGA is a great res for a 12" screen, the pixels are small..... The way you have to look as it is WXGA is wide xga..... so you have the height of a 12" system, but about an inch and a half wider...... however the pixel size on the WXGA 14" widescreen is the same as on the XGA 12".... until you see SXGA on a 12", you won't see WSXGA on a 14" widescreen.. I know it's a hard concept to follow, but I keep breaking it down... visualize. A 14" widescreen is NOT just a wider 14" standard size screen....... (that is technically a 15.4" widescreen.....)

The V6 will never come in widescreen... period. It can't. The chassis wasn't designed for standard and regular ratio (like the M6 was)...... so it's impossible without change the design.. if they do that it'll be an entirely different notebook.... becasue if the length and width change....... then they need to redesign the motherboard....... now we're talking about something entirely new..

WSXGA:

W1
Z81k
Z71v

Thats it until atleast summer... I can't look that far ahead.

Thanks,
Justin
PROPortable
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