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Another reason to wait on a new laptop: LED-backlighted LCD displays
So Apple and HP together announced that they will hopefully be implementing new LCD displays in their notebooks featuring LED backlights, which feature evenly lit screens (e.g. much bigger sweetspot) and a much better color gamut. The brightness of LED backlight is roughly 1,680 nits...whoppingly higher than the ~200-250 nit average we get in today's notebooks.
These will jump out for the mass public in Q207, around the same time as the arrival of Santa Rosa and Penryn (shrunken die of the Merom from 65nm to 45nm).
http://www.digitimes.com/displays/a20070103PD210.html
LED-backed LCD monitors (LCM's) have already been out for desktop users for over a year now and the big question is how much of a premium we are going to have to pay for LCM's (if any, but I am sure there will be). This report purportedly claims the contrast is amazing: http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/000980.html
EDIT: Many flatpanel LCD HDTVs are backlit by LEDs as well.
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As far as I know you can already get LED-lit LCDs. For example the high end Sony SZ do have it (SZ3VWP).
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Wow I've never even heard of the SZ3VWP before!
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That's just the European naming system. In the U.S., the SZ360 model and up, and most of the forthcoming 400 series, have backlit LED screens. :)
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These will jump out for the mass public in Q207, around the same time as the arrival of Santa Rosa and Penryn (shrunken die of the Merom from 65nm to 45nm).
I'm not sure if this quote was from the article linked. I tried to find it in the article, but couldn't. Anyway here's my feedback to the above..
The next generation Mobile CPU from Intel (rumored to be code named Penryn), won't be out until 2008, (which means it probably won't be in laptops until late 2008). Penryn is rumored to be a 45nm CPU, and while it will be based on the Merom design, it will be upgraded with new features like a 6mb cache on the high end, and a 3mb cache on the low end. So calling the Penryn a "shrunken die Merom" isn't quite accurate.
Santa Rosa, which is the code name for Intel's next generation mobile chipset, will not support the Penryn CPU, but rather the existing Merom CPU with a couple of updates. Intel will provide an updated Merom CPU for the Santa Rosa chipset, (a Merom that will support an 800 MHZ FSB and that will use the new Socket P), but it won't be Penryn.
Intel Santa Rosa announcement URL
Intel Laptop CPU Roadmap article URL
Intel CPU Roadmap article URL
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jas, your referenced articles are all too old.
Check out this article a couple of days ago on computerworld: http://www.computerworld.com/action/...8&pageNumber=4
Here is another article in Nov of '06: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/11...amples_penryn/ again stating Penryn release 2nd half of '07.
Also, Santa Rosa does indeed support Penryn. Why else would Penryn be released a full year before the Montevina platform? The Montevina platform regardless is still purported to supported Penryn (upon its release in '08 or late '07).
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dont wait, its bs
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Go to the sony forum on this site and ask about how many sony szp owners broke their lcd.
The thing is very fragile. Not to say that apples and hps will be fragile but I would wait and see.
toshiba libretto is also led lit and i think the fujitsu 2010
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To get that extra brightness, the power will need to come from somewhere. So that means higher consumption rates for LCMs.
Samsung's LGP Prism technology does a good job of creating an even backlighting.
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um
lgp is lg phillips
lgphillips is the company that uses the word prism for its screen. Other manufacturers use the same technology samsung probably does to they might have even invented it. But they dont use that word to describe it.
cmo uses the same type of screen in the g1 and the v1j