T61 4:3 Arrived Yesterday!

1 6468CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM
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Nice config, now i pray that it has a nice screen.



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the TMD screen is terrible I can't believe the crappy quality of this screen my LG 15.4 is much better than this screen. Also the GPU is not as fast as a 8600GT, my scores are on par with that dell 1330 that was reviewed.

 

What screen did you get? SXGA+? Also, what were your scores.

 

I got the TMD screen 14.1 sxga+

Vista Experience lists my scores as:

Processor 4.9 (I have the T7300)

Memory 4.8 (I have 4 gigs running Business 32)

Graphics 4.2

Gaming Graphics 5.0

Primary Hard Disk 5.0 (7200RPM 100gig)

What are your scores?

 

Damn ! ANCHORAGE,
AK, US 08/22/2007 4:52 P.M. A FLIGHT DELAY OCCURRED BECAUSE OF MECHANICAL REASONS


What display is:

42T0422 42T0423 15.4 INCH LCD DISPLAY FRU YES

The shipped this keyboard:


42T3109 42T3143 KEYBOARD FRU YES



Edit: seems like they are LG screen and NMB keyboard.

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What is terrible about the screen?

Braddd, you've got the same screen, right?

 

I do have the same exact screen. I said in another thread, for what I compared it to, I thought it was nice. I does what I need it to. I think the contrast could be better as well as the verticle viewing angles. The only light bleed I see is at the very bottom and top of the LCD, just slightly glowing though the edges during an all black screen. The only time I notice it is during start up. Messing with some brightness/contrast/gamma settings I think I am looking at a pretty nice screen, but I am not the most qualified person to speak on laptop screens.

My benchmarks can be found in the benchmark thread. My windows experiences was pretty similar to yours.

Just FYI The windows experience numbers are quoted by windows as being somewhat faulty.

 

braddd, I think ealier you mentioned one dead pixel on your screen? Is it still there? My "moving stuck pixel" is still visiting me every now and then, in various positions. I am, however, am not aware of any leak problem on my screen (TMD, too).

 

wow I have the 570 not the 140 and your scores are similar to mine that is weird!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!

 

For starters, the screen looks terrible at different angles, the high brightness setting barely suffices in a dark room. This is a pretty crappy screen, I have seen better on 300 dollar notebooks (GQ). I expected more from Lenovo especially with the t61P series. I am curious about the Samsung screen if its any better.

 

It only ever showed itself during the pixel test at http://www.gdargaud.net/Hack/DeadPixels.html

And its still there when I run one of those tests. I don't see it otherwise though. It is weird that you have a moving stuck pixel. A stuck pixel is a defect in manufacturing, so for it too move around would not be normal. Does it always move to a different spot or does it always show up in the same exact pixels? Its not any moisture under the screen right, or dust? Sometimes its easy to mistake dust as a dead pixel, when I first opened my T61 there was dust on the screen and I ran the test and saw like 15 dead pixels! Then I realized it was dust.

 

Which screen are we talking about here? TMD? (whats TMD?)



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TMD is Toshiba mitsubishi


Pictures of TMD taken in the dark:



These pictures are bad quality I'll try and get some better ones later.

 

Can you possibly run PC Wizard 2007 and see what it model or manufacturer number it reads out for the LCD sometimes the FRU numbers are incorrect..

If it is LTD141EN9B then it is TMD.

This guy at thinkpads.com seems to think the TMD SXGA+ LCD is much better looking then his T41p
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=47884&highlight=tmd

 

No, it's definitely not dust, because using that same dead pixel test, it displays different color depending on whether I click on "Black & White", or "Blue & Yellow", or.... I don't see it move. It's just there is always just ONE such pixel on the screen, sometimes here, sometimes there, usually white on dark screen. Very mysterious!

 

TMD = Toshiba and Matsushi-ta Display (guess why I use a hyphen there )

 

a description with just the hyphenated portion would be a more apt description for the quality of this screen

 

Thanks for the comparison pictures.
Please take more in a well-lit room.

 

3dmark05 scores 4888

 

What 3dmark06 and pcmark05 scores do you get? So that we can compare it to the NVS 140m scores posted earlier. Also, what clock speeds is your GPU running at?

 

I will try running 3dmark06 I ran it earlier and it gave me a "fail" error. I will try it right now hopefully it works