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    T60p 14'' with FlexView screen...when ???

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by kastro, Jun 22, 2006.

  1. kastro

    kastro Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    i need to buy now a T60p but someone tell me that IBM thinking about give us some day the T60p 14'' with FlexView screen.

    do i need to wait or to take now the T60p 15'' with FlexView screen?

    Thanks
     
    kastro, Jun 22, 2006
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  2. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    Thinking about it, if it is true, sounds like a ways off. If you need to buy now, then buy.
     
    ZaZ, Jun 22, 2006
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  3. kastro

    kastro Notebook Enthusiast

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    is it good for games or for movie the 14'' screen of the T60p
     
    kastro, Jun 22, 2006
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    Like most matte screens, the screen on the 14" will darken as you go off center. The IPS does this as well, but not nearly as much. The FlexView is brighter and has better contrast. Movies do look better on the IPS although the 14" isn't bad as I recall. Not much of gamer so no help there. If you really want to game or watch movies there are probably better choices.
     
    ZaZ, Jun 22, 2006
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    I don't understand why they don't have flexview for the t60 14 inch models either. DIdn' the t43 models have flexview on the 14in models?
     
    brotzfrog, Aug 14, 2006
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    According to the Tabook, FlexView is exclusive to 15"...even in the T4x's.
     
    Nooorm, Aug 14, 2006
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    They do not make any 14" IPS screens to my knowledge.
     
    ZaZ, Aug 14, 2006
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    15" only, and it's not as though Lenovo has any control over it. Lenovo doesn't make LCD glass, it just buys what's available. It may ask for 14" IPS screens, but that doesn't mean it's going to get it.
     
    masteraleph, Aug 14, 2006
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    Maybe they were available elsewhere in the world before, but they just introduced SXGA+ 15" flexview in both the T60p and T60 in the US market. That doesn't seem to bode well for a 14" flexview in the near future.
     
    Ethyriel, Aug 14, 2006
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    Actually FlexView has been around for about 3 years in the T4x series, when the 15" debuted. Only in the 15" to the best of my knowledge.

    Yeah in all that time there has been no 14" FlexView.

    Maybe flexview will come in the new 14" WIDE screen?? What a quandry that'd be for us traditional screen purists lol
     
    SkiBunny, Aug 14, 2006
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  11. Ethyriel

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    Ugh, don't even say that!

    If it's WSXGA+ I think I could handle it, since tiling would be reasonable at that point. But they'd probably make it WXGA+ and glossy to boot.
     
    Ethyriel, Aug 15, 2006
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