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    Lenovo blu ray

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by vatsup69, Mar 24, 2008.

  1. vatsup69

    vatsup69 Newbie

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    Hey everone, new guy here. So I was looking at the 14in blu ray think pad and it looked kind of monstrous thickness wise, does anyone know how big it is?
     
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  2. Arki

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    Dimensions would be listed in the review. The ThinkPad in question is the R61.

    http://www.notebookreview.com/defau...vo+ThinkPad+R61e+7650+-+C+540+1.86+GHz+-+15.4

    Although I'm not sure I would recommend the BlueRay optical drive if you plan on outputting to an external monitor since I don't think VGA would suffice for quality. The ThinkPad R series do not have HDMI or DVI yet. But if you want to burn large chunks of data onto BlueRay discs, then that should be fine.
     
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    techboydino Notebook Evangelist

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    i agree with ark. the ouput would just put blu-ray to shame. as far as the thickness, it is nothing to worry about. i have an R61 and am not bothered one bit about the thickness. a 1/2" was not really a deal breaker for me.
     
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    Actually, there is a thread on the issue of output from the Blu Ray optical drive and the general consensus among the many posters is that quality would not be compromised using the laptop.
     
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    Is the thread here on NBR? Can you provide a link? I'm very interested.
     
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    I only see one mention of VGA and the poster correlates it with the graphics card, but I don't agree with him that the limitation is the graphics card. It's the fact that VGA is an analog source that is the quality limit compared to DVI and HDMI, which are digital.
     
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