Re: 755CX first impressions (1.2 gig, 28.8modem?)

[jesse@spine.com (jesse montrose)]

At 01:12 PM 5/18/95 -0701, sandy@sandy.com wrote:
>Wait a minute...let me get this right...I missed the initial discussion.
>Are you telling me the new 755cx I bought (which is being delivered Friday)
>does NOT support 800x600 resolution at 65K colors???  This is probably the
>number one reason I purchased the 755cx.  
[...]
>IBM specifically states that its active-matrix display
>DOES support 800x600 at 65K colors.  Here is an exact quote from the
>755cx product description I took from IBM's WWW site: "Now, with the
>ThinkPad 755cx, we bring you another 10.4-inch diagonal SVGA Black Matrix
>TFT displays that give you 65,536 colors at 800 x 600 resolution".
>
>What's going on?

Here's the message we're referring to:
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From: dewar@GNAT.CS.NYU.EDU (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: 755CX first impressions (1.2 gig, 28.8modem?)

one other important point about the SVGA CX is that it is probably NOT
as convenient for multi-media work as the VGA machines for two reasons.

1. The 600 x 800 mode works only in 256 colors. Unlike a CRT where you
can modify the resolution, the resolution of a TFT is of course fixed.
This means that if you want to work in 64K color mode, you work with a
small 480 x 640 image centered in the screen (note that full screen DOS
sessions are also shrunk this way). 

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