My laptop is 1366x768, and I've never had any problems with it. I don't know the technical ins & outs of it, but it works fine and looks good. It obviously doesn't look as good as higher resolutions, but assuming it's significantly cheaper than higher res laptops (I know mine was when I bought it), it's a reasonable trade off.
I think 1440 x 900 is more common these days, but I guess it depends on the physical size of the screen as well. With that resolution, you're technically getting more pixels than a 720p screen - so contrary to the above post, games will look fine on it.
" Depends on screen size. If it's a very small screen (sub 10 inches) then yes. Resolution is just as important in workspace as it is in games. "
But laptop screens are so small that it wouldn't help anyway; if you had a 1080 screen on a laptop to view 2 pages side by side the text would be too small.
@Geno: Just going to use it for school and entertainment. Like I said I don't game much beyond old RTS's and online flash games, so graphical muscle is not a big issue. Entertainment meaning web browsing, music, videos, etc. Also, I used to have a computer running Intel GMA X4500 and that could play any of the games I threw at it. Those were early generation PC games like City of Heroes and Rome: Total War. I would assume this newer GMA would have improved performance.
@Geno: Ah thanks, that was useful information. Yeah it pretty much suits my needs as far as "gaming" goes. I am interested in Portal, and it should play it fine. Also, there is a cheaper model ThinkPad that sports a single core Intel Celeron T3000 processor, you wouldn't happen to know how well that specific processor performs do you? Because I'm on a really tight budget. I don't really want to spend more than $550.00 US dollars.
@SathingtonWaltz: I'm not as familiar with laptop hardware and desktop hardware, but I would heavily advise against anything single core, even for a laptop. Celeron has been obsolete for quite a while, and wasn't even good when it was active.
If you're looking for good deals on laptops I would advise keeping tabs on this website: http://www.logicbuy.com/. They track hardware deals across some of the largest manufacturers and there are some astonishingly good ones sometimes. I've seen some pretty amazing stuff go at 50% off, and other ones at several hundred dollars off. Other websites such as http://www.tomshardware.com/us/ usually then cull the data even further, bringing forth the best deals of the week for laptops and other electronics. For example this week HP has $350 off on several laptop models (though all of them are $1000+ so out of your budget I suppose), http://www.tomshardware.com/news/hp-envy-laptop-sale-coupon,9454.html.
@Geno: Yes I figured that the Celeron processors would be a poor choice. Even though I'm on a budget, I do want decent performance, and from what I understand the Core 2 Duo's are good processors, so I guess It would be worth it to stretch my budget out to afford the dual cores. I appreciate the information you have provided me, thanks.
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