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To: warawls who wrote (40403)	4/1/2004 12:01:57 AM
From: SI Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

You people really shouldn't leave palindromes lying around like this. I suppose I'll just have to clean it up for you. <g>

To: warawls who wrote (40403)	4/1/2004 12:41:25 PM
From: Esteban	Respond to of 110652

And WXGA and UXGA and UXGA+. It's all about screen resolution, which affects the real estate available and the size of the text and images in the display. You can experiment with your current computer to get an idea how different resolutions affect your display. XGA is the basic minimum size display, at something like 1024 x 768. W stands for wide and would be used on 15.4 vs. 15 monitors for example. Many are happy with the 1280 by 800 resolution of the wide screen 15.4 inch monitors. The others give you more real estate at the expense of smaller text and images. Laptops usually have very good crisp displays and one can tolerate smaller text on these than the desktop environment. Of course screen size also affects display size. You should look on the specs to see what the resolution is. Here's a table with lots of them. Use it as a guide, but defer to the manufacturer specs. 216.239.57.104 Remember you really don't want to change LCD monitors from their native resolution. The whole issue of laptop screen resolution is very much one of personal preference developed over time. I've been told to get the highest resolution you can reasonably stand. For most this is somewhere between WXGA and SXGA+. The UXGAs are very small. If you can get to a store that has different resolutions on display to sample it will help immensely in your decision. Here's a forum thread about the topic: notebookforums.com Esteban