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Play around with the trackpad settings in the synaptics drivers, you can get them set up pretty well. Mine has deadzones for clicking and dragging, two finger right click, two finger scrolling, and more multi finger gestures. It's pretty awesome.
Hm that's disappointing. so you didn't get the 1920x1080 screen either huh. Damn I don't know what to get now. I was looking at the envy 14 but it has that shitty screen now
I prefer lower resolutions for small screens (17" is a small screen).
1. Things are bigger, less squinting
2. Less GPU power required
I've had a 17" 1920*1200 laptop previously and I remember it being tiresome to work on because of the resolution
and...
The 5870 (being a lower clocked desktop 5770) is going to have a littttttle trouble pushing out good fps numbers at native 1080p. And we all should already know that [for LCDs], lower resolution from native is going to look worse than a native lower res screen.
The 5870 (being a lower clocked desktop 5770) is going to have a littttttle trouble pushing out good fps numbers at native 1080p. .
That's exactly what I had too, before going desktop. Inspiron 9300 with a 6800 Go. That's when Dell was still a legitimate playerI agree with the lower res of a gaming laptop though, with the lack of viable upgrades for laptops having a lower resolution prolongs the gaming life of the laptop. I can't imagine if I had tried to push 1920x1200 on my Inspiron 9300 back in the day, I'm so glad I went with the 1440x900 (I still play WoW on it today). I almost went for the 900p resolution in my G73, but I decided against it. I still don't know exactly why I did, but I'm sure either way I'd have been happy.
You can always scale down the resolution on a 1920x1080 panel too. I play at 1600x900 and 1280x720 in more demanding games like Crysis and Metro 2033, and it looks perfect on my laptop...you don't have this kind of flexibility on a lower res panel.
Not to mention, bluray on 1080p screens is awesome...fullscreen native res
Envy
- Gets hot as hell
- Trackpad is the worst I've ever encountered, ever. Ever.
Yes, the HP is thinner, smaller and lighter but make no mistake, it's still a gargantuan notebook and only .5 lbs lighter than the ASUS.
@laserbeam: I'm pretty sure lowteckh *is* the OP.
I dislike both.
ASUS
- Skipping keystrokes
- Keyboard layout, keep hitting all the wrong keys (stupid numpad)
- Uber stiff as hell mouse buttons, too spread apart as well
The sole "purpose" if you want to put a purpose to it was to just show the size difference between the Envy 17 and G73 (and that's a 13.3" on the last pic).Ha, thanks for pointing out my error. It never occurred to me that an OP might contradict the apparent purpose of the opening post and therefore the drive behind the whole thread.
This thread is a confused mess. I'll step away before I misinterpret much more
Regards,
Dave
I just got both of these laptops at $900 each (through a special deal), now I'm gonna need to choose which one to pick...
azn and lowteck, did you decide which laptop you like? If you are looking to get rid of the envy 17, I would be interested in taking it off your hands.
based on pictures alone, the Envy would be my choice just looks so much cleaner, and thinner