Anyone looking for an Ultraportable laptop look here!

[PoorManQ45]

Just wanted to give you guys a heads up.

I know some of you guys/girls are looking for netbooks or ultra-portable laptops.

Here is an awesome deal on one. I bought two of these. They come with Dell warranty through March 2011. This includes accidental damage coverage.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Latitude-D430- ... tops_Nov05
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-Latitude-D430- ... tops_Nov05

These are from a company. The two I received are in great shape.

$274 is a killer deal on this beast.

I bought a new 9 cell battery for mine and am currently enjoying about 7 hours of video playback on minimum brightness with wifi off. The included 9 cell on both mine got about 4 hours of run time due to degradation. Not too bad!

[RCA]

Yeah, I saw you post this on the other thread...

Pretty good deal on a dual core laptop. My only objection is XP. It's aging.

Outside of this, it's a home run.

[Dattebayo]

With 2 gigs ram, you should be able to run windows 7 easy.

[PoorManQ45]

I put Tiny7 on mine and it worked alright. you need to kill a lot of background services as this thing only has a 1.8" 7200rpm drive in it. the transfer rate is about 28MBps. compared to a desktop drive at 80MBps

[Jesda]

Nice deal there. I like the Latitudes. You can beat on them and they keep going.

I just bought a refurb Acer Timeline for $350 with a CULV Pentium SU2700, which means 7-8 hours of use from a 6-cell battery on a 13" screen, but you dont get dual core performance. It'll do 720p, but I think 1080 isnt going to happen.

[Dattebayo]

It'll do 720p, but I think 1080 isnt going to happen.

Both are kinda pointless given the screen size anyway.

[PoorManQ45]

when the system is on your lap you can notice the difference.

my screen can hand 720

[Jesda]

It'll do 720p, but I think 1080 isnt going to happen.

Both are kinda pointless given the screen size anyway.

Yeah, and the 768 resolution. Plus, the Acer doesnt have an optical drive, which is nice since its lighter and thinner without it, and I was able to install Win7 off a 4GB SSD card.

[Dattebayo]

when the system is on your lap you can notice the difference.

my screen can hand 720

No you can't. Not between 480 and 720, not on a screen that small. Oh wait- yeah you can. Some of the pixels are missing in the 720 version.

[PoorManQ45]

when the system is on your lap you can notice the difference.

my screen can hand 720

No you can't. Not between 480 and 720, not on a screen that small. Oh wait- yeah you can. Some of the pixels are missing in the 720 version.

Not sure what you're talking about there.

I am currently typing on my D430 with the screen about 14" from my face. At this distance you can see the difference.

I believe you are trying to apply LCD tv resolution vs distance to computer screens. This works fine, but you have to scale properly.

The closer you are to the screen, the higher the resolution and lower the dot pitch needs to be.

Actually, try standing 2' from a 42" 1080p tv. You'll notice that you can see the pixels, and the lines in between them are very large.

I have a 24" s-ips monitor with a resolution of 1920 x 1200. At 6' this would be unneeded, but at 2ft the pixels are just barely disappearing.

[Dattebayo]

I am currently typing on my D430 with the screen about 14" from my face. At this distance you can see the difference.

You're imagining things.

[Jesda]

I agree that the difference can be seen, especially on highly detailed computer LCDs. I can see it when I go to Youtube and watch 1080p compared to 720p.

[Dattebayo]

Yeah, well he was saying you can tell on that computer. I don't see it happening.

[marlin29311]

Yeah, well he was saying you can tell on that computer. I don't see it happening.

I do, and you can.

At those distances, especially when using a TA panel (which a lot of lappys/netbooks use), the resolution is noticeable. Brien's right when he talks about scaling...you looking at a smaller panel, yes, but at a much closer distance.

[Looneybomber]

Yeah, well he was saying you can tell on that computer. I don't see it happening.

I do, and you can.

At those distances, especially when using a TA panel (which a lot of lappys/netbooks use), the resolution is noticeable. Brien's right when he talks about scaling...you looking at a smaller panel, yes, but at a much closer distance.

I think what he's trying to say is that laptop likely has a max resolution of 1280x800 due to the small screen. Because of that, it won't be able to display anything larger then 720p due to not having enough pixels. Any content with a higher resolution (1080p, 2k, 4k) will be displayed as 1280x800, or 720p if you want to use the 16:9 ratio. Any noticable differences between the two will be in the ripping/encoding quality and not because of a resolution increase.

[Dattebayo]

I think what he's trying to say is that laptop likely has a max resolution of 1280x800 due to the small screen. Because of that, it won't be able to display anything larger then 720p due to not having enough pixels. Any content with a higher resolution (1080p, 2k, 4k) will be displayed as 1280x800, or 720p if you want to use the 16:9 ratio. Any noticable differences between the two will be in the ripping/encoding quality and not because of a resolution increase.

Bam.

Still, telling the difference between 480 and 720 on such a small screen is going to require you to put your face practically up against the screen, which is stupid.

[AppleBonker]

Dave, I've done the math (yup, huge nerd trying to figure out the need for 1080p vs 720p tvs) on widescreen monitors (which this is not). For a 12" widescreen monitor, an individual with perfect vision should be able to resolve a difference between 480p and 720p at nearly six feet. Given that this is a full-frame monitor, in widescreen the image has a diagonal of approximately 11", which would allow the same individual to notice a difference in quality at about 5.5 feet.

[PoorManQ45]

Dave, I've done the math

You don't get credit unless you show your work!

[AppleBonker]

I don't feel like drawing a diagram in ms paint or some crap. Search for the minimum angle the human eye can resolve. Then it's a simple matter of distance to the tv compared to the size of the pixels.

You browse AVS. Hasn't this been discussed there. Actually, I thought someone put together a spreadsheet to run the math. I just followed their lead and changed some of the assumptions of visual acuity I believe.

[Jesda]

Turtles can see SDTV in 1080p if they feel like it.

[PoorManQ45]

I don't feel like drawing a diagram in ms paint or some crap. Search for the minimum angle the human eye can resolve. Then it's a simple matter of distance to the tv compared to the size of the pixels.

You browse AVS. Hasn't this been discussed there. Actually, I thought someone put together a spreadsheet to run the math. I just followed their lead and changed some of the assumptions of visual acuity I believe.

It was sarcasm. Playing on stupid math teachers requiring you to show your work!

[Jesda]

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