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> Note that once we get to 1280 x 960 screens, things look at lot better, > because you can pixel double old 640 x 480 images. this would be useful, especially if the pixels are small enough so that the resulting characters aren't too chunky (as they are when I stretch 640x480 to full screen on a 800x600 laptop). > Well if you want to have the sun blaring on the screen, that would be > uncomfortable, but then sitting in the blaring sun is not my idea of fun > either :-) When you live in the tropics, you get used to it! Until the 770, the brightest TFT screen I'd ever seen was on the TI Travelmate 60x0 series - this was the dominant reason my wife bought a 6030. In fact, I think the 6030 screen is at most marginally less bright than the 770, though I think at full brightness it is less sharp. When indoors, she cuts the brightness down to about 2/3 maximum - the only laptop I've ever used where dimming was called for! However, even this machine is barely usable on our deck at midday, no matter whether the sun is behind, at the side, or ahead of the user. It would be interesting to try one of the projector-back Thinkpads; I wonder why they haven't extended the idea to the whole line. > <<Does anyone know when the new HP/Mitsubishi 3 pound mag-alloy laptops > will be hitting the stores? > >> > > You can get the Japanese model today, it will run US systems fine. Hmmm - I'll have to spend a day down in Waikiki this week, to see if any of the Japanese tourists has one I can try:-) - David