Don't make the mistake I made (new laptop)

[Tyler Aviss]

What's the native resolution on the internal LCD?
On Aug 29, 2012 5:49 PM, "Giles Orr" <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I just bought a Toshiba P850-057 - specs are a bit hard to come by as
> this model is "exclusive" to Future Shop.  More on other configuration
> challenges in email(s) to follow.
>
> My mistake was in assuming that because it had a good Nvidia card
> (GeForce GT 630M) with 2GB of RAM that driving my Dell U3011 at its
> full resolution of 2560x1600 wouldn't be a problem.  Because, after
> all, HDMI 1.4 supports 3840x2160.  But.  In looking at documentation
> (after I made the purchase) for various P850 type laptops with varying
> Nvidia cards, the max resolution out through the HDMI port is always
> noted as being 1920x1200.  And that's all that appears to be supported
> by Windows or Linux on this machine.
>
> Looking at the HDMI specs, the max resolution of HDMI v1 is 1920x1200.
>  Of course HDMI v1.3 is getting long in the tooth now and almost all
> devices (claim to) support v1.4.  But I'm getting a bit of Bill Gates
> syndrome here: "1920x1200 should be enough for anyone!"
>
> Just a cautionary tale, with the usual punchline: "don't assume."  I
> still think it was a reasonable assumption, but that requires the
> manufacturers to be reasonable.
>
> While the computer has two video outs (HDMI and VGA), it won't drive
> two external monitors and the internal monitor at the same time.
> However, it will drive two externals if the LVDS is turned off.
> That's fairly nice.  And it's running a Samsung Syncmaster 2343 at its
> full resolution of 2048x1152 over VGA while also running the Dell at
> 1920x1200.  And on this machine, Arandr is actually better behaved
> than Windows' screen configuration utility.
>
> Also on the plus side the laptop not only has four USB ports, but all
> four are USB3.  And when I went looking for instructions on how to
> change the hard drive, I found a video on YouTube - posted by Toshiba
> Europe.  So Apple is welding its devices shut, and Toshiba is telling
> you how to do it yourself.  I can get behind that - in fact, it was a
> significant selling point.
>
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