X1600

[Romanian]

Wow. I think this topic is pretty much dead now, since all of my
possible questions have been answered! Thank you to everyone! I think I
will be able to manage to find a way to remove the gloss on the screen.
If I can de-polarize polarized sunglasses, I can de-gloss it.

Thanks again to everyone who helped me out!

 

[Benjamin Gawert]

* Romanian:

Wow. I think this topic is pretty much dead now, since all of my
possible questions have been answered! Thank you to everyone! I think I
will be able to manage to find a way to remove the gloss on the screen.
If I can de-polarize polarized sunglasses, I can de-gloss it.

I really doubt that. The antiglossing of TFT panels is not comparable to
de-polarizing sunglasses or anything like that. It has to be done during
production, involves several kinds of acid and is done before the panel
gets sandwiched together and the LCD cells are filled with liquid cristals.

In the best case you "only" completely void the warranty on a 1900USD
notebook. In the worst case you end up with an expensive door stop.
Programming usually is a task that doesn't fit with glossy screens, and
in this case choosing a notebook that fits the requirements better would
be the wiser choice. Fiddling around on a new unit isn't.

Benjamin

 

[Barrabas]

Hey all, I just have two questions about the X1600. I am about to get
an ASUS notebook PC with an X1600, so I want to find out about the card
first.


1) Many games I have say that they support the "Radeon 8500/9000/9200"
"Radeon 9500/9600/9700/9800" and "X300/X600/X700/X800/X850" families.
Would the X1600 fall into any of these families, or if not, will it
still run the game (the specific game I was looking at was Star Wars
Battlefront 2)?

2) The configuration of the S96J says that it has ATI X1600 Solid Video
Memory. Somebody told me that this would mean that it has 512mb
hypermemory. Is this true, and if so, is there any way to turn off the
hypermemory so that I conserve my RAM?


Thank you very much!

I'm confused. The specs in the brochure say my X1600 mobility has
128mb memory. Maybe it has both this and shared memory.
It says 512 hypermemory too on the Catalyst Information thing.

I would be interested in your experiences on DVD-Video playback from
the DVD drive.
A recent driver update from the laptop manufacturer made some improvement.

 

[Barrabas]

Hey all, I just have two questions about the X1600. I am about to get
an ASUS notebook PC with an X1600, so I want to find out about the card
first.


1) Many games I have say that they support the "Radeon 8500/9000/9200"
"Radeon 9500/9600/9700/9800" and "X300/X600/X700/X800/X850" families.
Would the X1600 fall into any of these families, or if not, will it
still run the game (the specific game I was looking at was Star Wars
Battlefront 2)?

2) The configuration of the S96J says that it has ATI X1600 Solid Video
Memory. Somebody told me that this would mean that it has 512mb
hypermemory. Is this true, and if so, is there any way to turn off the
hypermemory so that I conserve my RAM?


Thank you very much!

It can't be shared memory on my laptop:
From the Toshiba users manual:
Video RAM Up to 128 MB integrated solution shares with main

memory for intel 945GM/940GML. External 64/128/

256 MB VGA DDR2 RAM for ATI MOBIRITYT

RADEON® X1300/X1400/X1600 or nVIDIA Geforce

Go 7600/7300. (Depend on model you purchased)

 

[Barrabas]

* Romanian:


I have several people in my environment that bought into one of these
glossy displays because at first they were fascinated, but after some time
of everyday use the people that use it for some real work and not just
only games and watching DVD regret that because the glossy screen reflects
everything which is behind you. It's basically like a mirror which makes
working with applications really hard...


I'm not exactly sure (and it depends on the notebook resp. it's BIOS) but
in some systems there is a BIOS switch that selects the max. HyperMemory
size. You can set it to zero/off there.

My Toshiba laptop with X1600 and the enigmatic 512 hypermemory,
has no reference to it in the BIOS set up, or any video memory.
There seems no way to tell if it has any dedicated memory besides what
was in brochures and specifications on the website. I find it very hard to
believe it has only shared video memory. Though I noticed an increase
of more than 200 mb of RAM when running Doomsday. It is described
as having 128mb video memory on the website.

 

[Victor]

Hey all, I just have two questions about the X1600. I am about to get
an ASUS notebook PC with an X1600, so I want to find out about the card
first.


1) Many games I have say that they support the "Radeon 8500/9000/9200"
"Radeon 9500/9600/9700/9800" and "X300/X600/X700/X800/X850" families.
Would the X1600 fall into any of these families, or if not, will it
still run the game (the specific game I was looking at was Star Wars
Battlefront 2)?

2) The configuration of the S96J says that it has ATI X1600 Solid Video
Memory. Somebody told me that this would mean that it has 512mb
hypermemory. Is this true, and if so, is there any way to turn off the
hypermemory so that I conserve my RAM?


Thank you very much!

Go here-http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=39568
and here-http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=50029