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by Eiraku
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 08:50 AM |
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DISPLAY
Like I said before, the 12-inch glossy WXGA display is typical HP: bright, clear and nearly faultless. Colours are vivid, no dead pixels anywhere and viewing angles are good, albeit slightly limited due to the anti-scratch coating applied on the screen. The glossy coating presents the same problem as any other glossy notebook screen – namely problems with using it under sunlight or bright indoor lights. Also, as usual, there’s a bit too much gamma, but that’s easily rectified with some tweaks via the nVidia control panel.
 
Indeed, the only major problem with the screen (besides the glossy TrueLife whatever. But glossy screens are like an inescapable plague, so I’ll let it slide) is the slight discolouration and colour smearing at certain angles due to the anti-scratch coating; which is a necessity due to the fact that the TX1316au is a fully fledged Tablet PC, and thus is more susceptible to screen damage than most other normal notebooks. Light leakages are also very hard to spot on the screen, and the backlight is mostly uniform.
Next, we move on to the passive touch system found on the TX1613au’s screen. Unlike active touch systems (for instance, ones found on most other Tablet PC screens and WACOM drawing tablets), the resistive passive system on the TX1613au depends solely on pressure to work. In layman’s terms, it’s simply a huge PDA screen, and works as such. Still, it is far less sensitive compared with my Dell x51v’s PDA screen, and fingertips will only work if you press very (very) hard on the screen. Plus, it is not multi-touch enabled, as the touchscreen is of a resistive type rather than the iPhone’s capacitive type.
In terms of problems with the touch-screen – like it was said before – it is this beforementioned lack of sensitivity that results in some difficulty in using the TX1613au’s handwriting recognition functions, as you have to maintain a fair amount of even downwards pressure to be able to write well – which isn’t as easy as it sounds, trust me.
Next: Performance
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