From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 26 4:10:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5EE37B718 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 04:10:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2QC8Zb00739; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 04:08:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103261208.f2QC8Zb00739@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Vincent Poy Cc: FreeBSD mobile Mailing List Subject: Re: Looking for a new laptop In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:57:33 -1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 04:08:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > > > 1600x1200 display > > > > > > > > Aren't Dell's about the only laptops with such high res displays? > > > > > > No, the display originally came from IBM. Dell licensed it from > > > IBM... > > > > No, the 1600x1200 panel is made by Toshiba. You're thinking of the > > 1400x1050 panel, which is not "licensed". (The correct term is "OEMed".) > > Nope, I'm talking about the 15" 1600x1200 UXGA panel... That's > made by IBM and not Toshiba and I even remember there was a article saying > Dell licensed it from IBM and you're right the term should be OEMed... > It's the panel used on both the IBM A21P and the Dell Inspiron 8000. Funny, then, that when you probe it, it identifies itself as being a Toshiba panel (as opposed to the 1400x1040 display, which reports itself as an IBM panel). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message