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cadlabsreview and weighs 8.9 lbs with the lithium ion battery installed. The unit Cadalyst received for review was based on a fullblown, dual-core processor — the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 — running at 2.66 GHz, rather than a chip specifically intended for mobile systems. The system was very attractive and well designed, finished in high gloss (Piano) black and matte black, and featured a wide-aspect-ratio 17” screen with a native resolution of 1,680 x 1,050. The display panel provided excellent quality and was very crisp and bright. In this case, the display was driven by an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX graphics card with 512 MB of memory installed. Dell • Dell Precision M90 Mobile Workstation • www.dell.com August 2007. If you need to take your CAD or DCC work on the road with you, the Dell Precision M90 is certainly up to the task: It offers good performance, reliability, and good battery life, not to mention very good warranty coverage. The M90 is targeted at engineers, animators, and other design professionals who need a powerful system. The Dell M90 can accommodate as much as 4 GB of high-speed DDR2 memory to handle large models or datasets, though the system Cadalyst received — at the magazine’s request — was equipped with 2 GB of DDR2 667 MHz RAM. The Dell M90 that Cadalyst received was based on an Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 2.33 GHz microprocessor and included a 100 GB 7,200 rpm hard disk. It supported a 667 MHz front-side bus speed. The Precision M90 features a 17” wide-aspect ratio (16:10) WUXGA resolution, active-matrix TFT screen that is both bright and crisp, with a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,200. The dimensions of the M90 are 11.3” x 15.5” x 1.6”, and the weight is a moderate 8.6 lbs with the battery installed. Dell • Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC Flat-Panel Monitor • www.dell.com September 2007. In the annual Cadalyst roundup review of large flat-panel monitors, I noted how impressed I was with the Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC’s size as well as its overall construction quality and its excellent display quality. The 30” active matrix TFT LCD panel offers a native resolution of 2,560 x 1,600, response times of 12 ms blackto-white and 8 ms gray-to-gray, and a 92% color gamut. The brightness rating for the UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC is 300 cd/m2, and the contrast rating is 1,000:1. The display quality of the Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC is excellent, and it sailed through the benchmark tests with perfect scores. The display has a rated 178° viewing angle both horizontally and vertically, and this seemed to be fairly accurate, with no noticeable fall-off or screen darkening when viewed off angle. Hewlett-Packard • HP LP3065 Flat-Panel Monitor • www.hp.com September 2007. In reviewing the HP LP3065 flat-panel monitor, I observed that if you need a high-quality and very large display, the HP LP3065 is a well-built and attractive choice. The HP LP3065 offers a 30” diagonal screen with a 92% color gamut to provide a large, highquality display that is suitable for a wide range of applications. These applications include CAD and DCC, presentations, and visualization. The HP LP3065 aced the benchmark test The HP with excellent scores for brightness, contrast, LP3065 features focus, convergence, color purity, geometric distortion, and raster rotation. a 1,000:1 contrast ratio display with a brightness rating of 300 cd/m2, combined with a fine dot pitch of 0.25 mm. The native resolution of the panel is 2,560 x 1,600 and, when combined with the fine dot pitch, produces text that is readable at 9 pixels (6.8 points) in size. On the test bench, the HP LP3065 performed the benchmark suites without any difficulty and produced excellent scores in terms of brightness, contrast, focus, convergence, color purity, geometric distortion, and raster rotation. No flickering or ghosting was present at any point during testing. Grays were generally a bit on the warm side — typical of recent HP flat-panel displays — with grayscale ramps that were smooth and showed no discrete steps. LaCie • LaCie 321 Flat-Panel Monitor • www.lacie.com September 2007. The LaCie 321 is a 21.3” 4:3 aspect ratio monitor, but it is small in size only, producing an onscreen image that is exceptionally good. The LaCie 321’s native resolution is 1,600 x 1,200, with the dot pitch given as 0.27 mm on an SA-SFT panel. The response time is 20 ms. The LaCie 321 is a high-gamut display, offering CRTgrade 72% NTSC gamut in combination with a screen brightness of 250 cd/m2 and a contrast rating of 800:1, making it an excellent choice for those who consider color fidelity and accuracy paramount. Color gradations are 22 December 2007 | cadalyst | www.cadalyst.com http://www.hp.com http://www.dell.com http://www.dell.com http://www.lacie.com http://www.cadalyst.com

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