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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: -------------- 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). [...] ____________________________________________________________________ <jesse@spine.com> http://www.hooked.net/bin/jesse.home After seven years, I was sent home to my family. Little man, I give the watch to you.