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XGA or SXGA on dell 600M?

Jun 3, 2005 7:24AM PDT

I will be buying a new laptop and am thinking of the Dell 600M. I do now know wether I should spend the extra $75-100 to go from 1.8 Ghz XGA to 1.8Ghz SXGA. This laptop has a 14.1" screen. I will use this laptop mostly for school, internet, word processing. I am a little bit confused as to what XGA and SXGA really is. Can anyone help.

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Jun 5, 2005 10:58AM PDT

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Btw
Jun 6, 2005 4:02AM PDT

By the way, 600m has XGA (1024 x 76Cool and SXGA+ (14-something by 10-something), not SXGA (1280 x 1024).

Why they don't offer SXGA, I don't know. It seems like that would be the perfect option.

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xga vs. sxga
Jun 6, 2005 3:50PM PDT

would sxga make the text too small for a 14.1'' screen. I just don't know the advantages of having sxga to xga.