Anti-glare filters can reduce eyestrain?

Hi guys,

I just bought my first laptos just 2 months ago, and I'm suffering from eye strain.The laptop is a Lenovo n200 with a glossy screen, and I don't getting use to it.

I've read various posts about glossy vs matte, but normally peaple complains about reflections, but this is not my main concern, cause I use the laptop at home and normally stays in the same place.

So if anybody have one of this filters, do you notice any difference? It can ressembles the confort of matte desktop lcd?

I have to ask because I don't find any of these filters in Spain, just the privacy ones, so I have to buy from US.

Thanks a lot in advance.

 

What is your resolution ? is it 1680x1050 ? even though 1680x1050 is not a very high resolution for a 15.4" it is higher than the usual 1440x900, Maybe your eye strain is caused by reading small text ?? Try increasing the DPI.

 

I don't think a privacy filter is going to help.

N200 native resolution is 1680 * 1050, which means if you increase the dpi you dont lose that much desktop space.

You should try turning down the brightness and check the refresh rate of the LCD. If that doesn't work just put laptop further away with bigger text, that way your eye dont have to squint your eye.

Sometimes when my mom use my TZ, I notice she squint her eye cause the text are too small, so I taught her how to increase text size in Firefox (Ctrl + "+" or "-").

I hope that helps.

 

i think i've read somewhere that someone turned the refresh rate of their monitor down to help, but it's probably locked at 60 on your laptop. i always thought the privacy filters help with glare too, but there too expensive for me.

 

Refresh rate has no effect on LCD monitors. Once a pixel value is set in an LCD it will remain at that state until a command is received to change it’s state, they don’t require constant refreshing like CRT monitors (they use two completely different techniques to illuminate)..

 

I've also noticed a certain eyestrain and my screen isn't glossy. Or at least its an in-between (whatever Asus does with its screens)

 

I find that I get eye strain from LCD moniters more then the old CRTs, but I don't honestly have a good answer for why. I don't think getting a screen would help at all, at best it will just force you to use a lower brightness. I have found that doing some of the following generally help:
1. Lower brightness. I normally keep mine about 80-90% of full, if my eyes hurt I go to 30-50% of full.
2. Move closer. I have bad distance vision so if I sit really far away things basicly start to get blurry combined a small screen really makes things hard. If you have the same issue sit closer, if you have bad vision for close objects then move it farther away.
3. Increase the size of things. I don't like changing the windows DPI as LCDs look horrible off of their native resolutions - however, many times of software can increase the size of things rather well. I use Opera for the internet and it can scale any webpage up or down as needed. Same goes for things like word, adobe reader, or photoshop. Try to scale things at 200% for the best looking picture, or 150% as a second best option.

Good luck.

 

It's important that you don't stare at the screen for long periods and look away and focus on a distant object, ideally through a window.

I don't think a filter will help. Do you get eyestrain with other computers?

 

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for the answers.

No, I have a very large dpi, this is the firts thing I did, and because of that I have a huge mouse cursor, not a big deal but I don't know how to get a bit smaller (using vista)

In the Nvidia control panel I get everything as it comes, at 50%. I tried to lower the brightness, but then, the colors get darker and I have to force even more the eyes. Same with contrast, the white for example gets grey.

I spend the same time in front of the screen as with my old crt, and I'm not the only one in the family who notice the difference. Now is not that bad as it was at the beggining, but I'm noticing that I don't read that much when surfing the internet.

At one work I had, there was a desktop lcd, I didn't use it that much, it wasn't on my desk, but the few times I use it, I was very confortable with it, I'm afraid I don't use any other laptop, so I can't compare.

Searching matte vs glossy posts here, I've found that a lot of peaple complaint about glossy screens, but others get more eyestrain from matte screens. I really miss my old crt.