®®® 0 Report post Posted March 27, 2006 ######, seems we have to live with it. Next time a Samsung. I told him before (my Boss :) ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Almighty1 0 Report post Posted March 27, 2006 Yeah, especially when the SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc) 1600SW costed $2500 when I bought it through Dell a few years ago. It's made by Mitsubishi Industrial in Japan. The backorder took like 2-3 months and I didn't want to return it and wait another 2-3 months again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
®®® 0 Report post Posted March 27, 2006 :) 2500$ ?!? For a display?!? That was the price of my Laptop in 2002. Heck! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Almighty1 0 Report post Posted March 28, 2006 Yep, do a search on the Silicon Graphics Inc 1600SW, it was regarded as the monitor that the Executives of Fortune 500 companies had on their desks including Bill Gates. It's basically the smaller version of the original Apple 22" LCD display which was $4000 when it was made by Mitsubishi and then was dropped to $3000 when it was made by LG. My notebooks back in 1999-2002 all costed $5000 or more. Here is a review posted in 1999 about it: http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/sg1600swlcd.htm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Guest Report post Posted May 25, 2006 Does anybody know of a DeadPixelBuddy equivalent that can be ran from DOS? I'm about to take delivery of a new laptop and would like to test it for dead pixels before going through the initial WinXP setup process. Then, if there are any pixels missing, I can return it before having 'used' it. Or is there some simple windows-based boot disk I could use that could load from CD that would allow me to run DeadPixelBuddy and not write anything to the hard drive? Cheers, Jon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Almighty1 0 Report post Posted June 3, 2006 You can build a WinPE disk which is a live Windows CD using BART and then add in Dead Pixel detector. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kairu Report post Posted September 4, 2006 Just bought my new notebook (aspire 5552) found one dead or stuck pixel , haven't run the test yet hope not more than one and not less than 4 haha hiks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
®®® 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 DeadPixeltester v2.30 is out: Get the tool here (no installation orgy, 1 file .EXE): http://www.dataproductservices.com/dpt Instructions (as it's not obvious how to test: Move the window by grabbing the border at any location Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blah238 0 Report post Posted October 16, 2007 this is a very nice program! thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cokro 0 Report post Posted February 10, 2009 had 1 spot of blue dead pixel. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites