Couple things I find funny;
First, this thread is about what someone wrote about what someone else wrote! It's an illustration of how easily things spread on the internet. "Yeah, the Xoom seems pretty neat but I keep reading about how the screen sucks...". I just find it amusing that someone can read ten completely different internet personalities stating the same thing and feel like he's got ten different sources, and they can all be traced back to just one critic.
The other thing is that I used to frequent the laptop forums regularly, and there was always this huge on going debate about the LCD screens. At the time 17 inchers had just come out, and the exact same things were always being debated; color saturation, brightness, viewing angle, and the glossy vs matt argument.
There were fans of either glossy or matt, and they all seemed to hate the other choice as much as they loved their own. There were even folks that liked a narrow viewing angle, citing examples where viewing privacy was appreciated, such a using your laptop on a flight. But no matter what, brand loyalty (...or what someone owned at the time) seemed to have an uncanny influence on what screen looked best to someone.
I have a fairly inexpensive toshiba hd television in the family room. When I want to watch a movie, I want to use that. If I'm at the airport or on the road or camping or beating it in the bathroom, the screen on my Xoom looks much, much better than no screen at all.
My wife has the ipad, and here screen does look better, but only barely, and only if they are side by side.
But even if the screen on the Xoom is completely terrible, is there much else about the Xoom (component wise) that can be said sucks? Complaining about the screen (IMO) is almost like TRYING to find something not to like about it.
First, this thread is about what someone wrote about what someone else wrote! It's an illustration of how easily things spread on the internet. "Yeah, the Xoom seems pretty neat but I keep reading about how the screen sucks...". I just find it amusing that someone can read ten completely different internet personalities stating the same thing and feel like he's got ten different sources, and they can all be traced back to just one critic.
The other thing is that I used to frequent the laptop forums regularly, and there was always this huge on going debate about the LCD screens. At the time 17 inchers had just come out, and the exact same things were always being debated; color saturation, brightness, viewing angle, and the glossy vs matt argument.
There were fans of either glossy or matt, and they all seemed to hate the other choice as much as they loved their own. There were even folks that liked a narrow viewing angle, citing examples where viewing privacy was appreciated, such a using your laptop on a flight. But no matter what, brand loyalty (...or what someone owned at the time) seemed to have an uncanny influence on what screen looked best to someone.
I have a fairly inexpensive toshiba hd television in the family room. When I want to watch a movie, I want to use that. If I'm at the airport or on the road or camping or beating it in the bathroom, the screen on my Xoom looks much, much better than no screen at all.
My wife has the ipad, and here screen does look better, but only barely, and only if they are side by side.
But even if the screen on the Xoom is completely terrible, is there much else about the Xoom (component wise) that can be said sucks? Complaining about the screen (IMO) is almost like TRYING to find something not to like about it.
