[bunta]

I was just at staples today, and saw a mini 10 with GMA500. It has a resolution of 1024 x 768 which is the ideal res. that i would like since i have software that requires 1024 x 768 as a minimum. But it had the Atom Z520 which is the 1.3ghz.

Any idea how they got 1024 x 768..??

[Hairball]

Did you see it in person or just an ad/display? There's no way with the current layout it can be 1024x768 unless it was squished.

[elislider]

1024x768 is 4:3 ie. standard monitor screen ratio. no laptop with widescreen would have this as a native resolution. also the mini 10 with the GMA500 is indeed the mini 10 not the mini 10v (you are posting in the 10v section)

[somms]

Originally Posted by elislider

also the mini 10 with the GMA500 is indeed the mini 10 not the mini 10v (you are posting in the 10v section)

Noted and moved...

[Dunhamzzz]

They must have got it wrong!

Check the screen res for yourself!

[bunta]

Originally Posted by Hairball

Did you see it in person or just an ad/display? There's no way with the current layout it can be 1024x768 unless it was squished.

Yes. I saw it in person at Staples today. Like i said, i checked and checked and checked again. Even if it wasnt the 10v, regular mini 10 carries resolution of 1024 x 576, recently bumped to 1024 x 600 OR the HD screen 1366 x 768.

I have never seen a mini 10 with 1024 x 768 until today. That is actually what i would prefer.

Originally Posted by elislider

1024x768 is 4:3 ie. standard monitor screen ratio. no laptop with widescreen would have this as a native resolution.

Well, i saw one today. I would go back and take a picture of it, but im too lazy. I believe it was the native resolution, since the icons and everything was pretty clear without any fuzz. But i am 150000% sure it was 1024 x 768.

It was too bad, it had the Atom 1.3. If it wouldve been the 1.6, i wouldve bought right there. But i needed to come home to do a little research first.

[bunta]

Originally Posted by Dunhamzzz

They must have got it wrong!

Check the screen res for yourself!

I DID check the res myself! I was there! Touched it! Squinted a hundred times. Closed and re-opened display properties again and again and again.

Man, i really want to go back and take a picture of it but im tooo damn lazy.

[reydemia]

haha funny, I was just at my local best buy, and it was set to the same resolution. BUT it was horribly squished and out of proportion. Went and checked the device manager only to find the wrong driver was installed, it was definitely not the GMA500 driver. I am guessing this happened because they must do clean wipe install of the showroom netbooks with there own custom best buy crap on it. Seeing as the Mini 10 was the only one in the store with the GMA500 and the only one with a screwed up resolution, it is only logical. Performance was severely hindered because of this bad driver also, not necessarily speed wise, but visually...everything is slow to react. I fix pc's all the time and that is a tell tale sign of a bad driver.

so no...they do not have 1024x768...just messed up drivers.

[bunta]

Originally Posted by reydemia

haha funny, I was just at my local best buy, and it was set to the same resolution. BUT it was horribly squished and out of proportion. Went and checked the device manager only to find the wrong driver was installed, it was definitely not the GMA500 driver. I am guessing this happened because they must do clean wipe install of the showroom netbooks with there own custom best buy crap on it. Seeing as the Mini 10 was the only one in the store with the GMA500 and the only one with a screwed up resolution, it is only logical. Performance was severely hindered because of this bad driver also, not necessarily speed wise, but visually...everything is slow to react. I fix pc's all the time and that is a tell tale sign of a bad driver.

so no...they do not have 1024x768...just messed up drivers.

Interesting.... Both Staples AND Best Buy installed the wrong drivers.

[reydemia]

Originally Posted by bunta

Interesting.... Both Staples AND Best Buy installed the wrong drivers.

wouldn't be that unbelievable...windows xp defaults to only allowing certain resolutions if it cannot cooperate with the video hardware, those of which being 4:3 scaled 800x600 and 1024x768.(mostly due to the fact that xp was made in a time when NO ONE had widescreen monitors...lol ah good ol 2001)

What I am saying is that they might have an xp "recovery" disk which comes pre configured that they run on all showroom devices...saves them the time of installing and setting up every netbook to how they want it. instead the just pop in the disk and hit the power button, 30 min later its ready. Seeing as almost every standard netbook out there has pretty much the same hardware this wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that the mini 10 is one of the few who has the GMA500 instead of the 950.

of course this is just one of the various scenarios that could have taken place...showroom pc's get screwed with an messed up all the time, don't tell me you've never come across a blue screen or old error screen while looking around at electronic stores.

Face it your wrong....and I'm not even mentioning the fact that it is impossible to make a widescreen laptop with a 4:3 aspect ratio of pixels and it work correctly, let alone dell even be stupid enough to try and sell it.

LOL but if you insist! go back there and I guarantee you, that panel is not 1024x768. It's just a software issue.