Yet, perhaps surprisingly, there seems to be no shortage of new angles.

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With zero grams of activation force, Crescendo Sensor works at all angles and requires absolutely no calibration, providing hundreds of levels of pressure.

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The Panel was nice and bright, even eclipsing our LED-backlit XPS M1330 on maximum settings -- though the screen looked washed out, viewed from off-angles -- and featured smooth action and no perceptible audio sync issues when playing a DVD-quality movie.

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The matte finish and IPS technology lend the machine very wide viewing angles as well -- you can tip the screen a ways forward before images start to wash out, and watching Netflix with friends shouldn't be an issue, as we had no problem viewing the action even at extreme off-angles.

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And no two walls are parallel to each other in the living area: The angles prevent sound from bouncing back and forth, so when they sing, or when Ms. Clayton plays her Yamaha C5 piano, the music fills the room.

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The display's viewing angles are decent, even in bright light, but looking from above or below is really no match for a straight-on view.

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There seems to be no way that particles streaming past the earth along magnetic field lines can make a turn, move at right angles to those lines for a bit and end up inside the magnetosphere.

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