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brightview will be brighter, and have a better picture in bright light, and as for resolution that is more of a personal preference. As always I recommend looking at that for yourself.
Best would be going to a store and seeing how a wxga looks with 1280x800 and 1680x1050. Another way to do it would be to get a 17" montior and set it at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.
I asked this question on another thread and didn't get any response, but I was wondering what this Brightview was. I checked the HP site and they have no info on this. Can anybody provide any more info?
i went to CompUSA and BestBuy and took a look at Brightview. It is the same as sony's XBrite. It is absolutly BEAUTIFUL!!! It is WORTH EVERY PENNY! It makes your monitor look like an LCD with picture of a CRT. You can watch a DVD movie from accross the room and it looks AWESOME. I looked at the 17 inch HP with 1680x1050 at compusa and I was impressed, although I feel that with teh Brightview option it would look much better on WUXGA. I saw a Sony Vaio WUXGA with XBrite and it looked even better with the WUXGA. Basecally that is all I am waiting for now. WUXGA and Brightview from HP.
its better and thats y it is more expensive. if u really want to know, go to the store and check it out. i assure u that you will be amazed. to tell you the truth, i had a hard time looking at the other laptops after seeing the brightview. it makes other laptops feel old and outdated. the brightview allows u to really see the colors.
overseas is called ultra black or something like that. because when u turn off the computer and look at a normal screen, it is dark grey. when u turn off a brightview screen, it is completely black.
Well, I've had HP/Compaq systems before. The most recent was the NX7000. I got this last year in the fall. The screen was bright, but I just assumed it was because it had a better backlight. I have also gone to places like Best Buy where the notebooks are placed side-by-side and the HP's do look very nice. My main question is, why don't they advertise it like Sony's X-Bright (or was that X-Black) and Fujitsu's technology (can't remember what it is)?
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