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TFT vs XGA vs Xbrite?

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by abbeyhurst, 2004/09/15.

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  1. 2004/09/15
    abbeyhurst

    abbeyhurst Inactive Thread Starter

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    Sorry for my ignorance, but a 67-year old friend wants to get into computing with a new laptop, and asked my advice.. One of the things I told him was to get a TFT or Active Matrix screen which was the best when I bought my laptop four years ago. He asked me what XGA and Xbrite monitors were, and I had no idea..! He'll not be doing any heavy graphics stuff, i.e. gaming, so what, if any are the benefits of XGA/Xbrite? Do these two have the excellent clarity and sharpness of TFT? Also, are there any real dogs in the CPU world, e.g. Celeron, etc.? (I'd advised him to stick with Pentium 4...)

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    Steve R Jones

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    XGA

    Short for extended graphics array, a high-resolution graphics standard introduced by IBM in 1990. XGA was designed to replace the older 8514/A video standard. It provides the same resolutions (640 by 480 or 1024 by 768 pixels), but supports more simultaneous colors (65 thousand compared to 8514/A's 256 colors). In addition, XGA allows monitors to be non-interlaced.


    Can probably find info on XBRITE at sony.com


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    abbeyhurst

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    Steve - Thanks for the info.... I'll assume that XVA is indeed at least as good as TFT ... This stuff (and my familiarity with it) gets obsoleted so quickly.
     
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