In message <20020617172510.5131bb0a.joel_carnat@yahoo.fr>, Joel CARNAT writes:
>Hi,
>
>	seeing shots of *BSD gurus, I realised most of them had laptops.
>	for curiosity I went to DELL's homepage to check their hightest
>products (specificaly Inspiron 8200).
>	a weird thing I noticed was that they claim resolution up to 1600x1200
>on their LCD screen...
>***************
>http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/learnmore/learnmore_screen_notebooks_popup_inspn
>.htm
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>
>	using Inspiron 8200, 8100 or 4100, can we get "real" 1400x1050 on the
>LCD ?
>	I mean, is it 1400x1050 on the LCD or does it use some kinda virtual
>desktop with 1024x768 visible and scrollable with the mouse ?
>	
>	the reason is that I've never wanted to buy a laptop because a screen
>of 1024 is really too tiny (for me)... but if I'd be able to have
>1400x1050 entirelly on the LCD, I would thing twice... :)
>
>thanks for the answers,
>	Jo
>
I can't speak for Dell laptops, but I'm typing this on a Thinkpad T21 
running NetBSD and using a real resolution of 1400x1050.  No scrolling, 
no tricks, real 1400x1050, using NetBSD and XFree86 4.1.0.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)