Is 1200p noticiable

Can you visually see the difference between the 720p and the 1200p?

 

The difference is HUGE. Are you talking about while playing games on your 360 hooked up to a TV or using the computer screen.

If you are talking about a computer screen the difference is day and night.

 

I am talking about getting the 720p screen for my M17 or the 1200p but I don't have more money for the screen i could sacrifice the video card and buy it later.

 

If you are using it for gaming go for the GPU beaucse honestly a higher resolution will hurt gaming because a lot of games have more trouble running at 1920x1200. Then you have to bump them down to a non native resolution which doesn't look as good.

If this laptop is for gaming get the 1400x900

 

I have the 1920x1200 screen on my laptop, when/if I compare that to the m15x my friend bought with the 1440x900 screen, I see a huge difference. especially when the DPI settings are the same.... though, I often set mine to 120.

needless to say, images appear smaller, because there's just more information displayed in a smaller area... to me, pictures look more uniform and less jagged.. which is all due to the smaller pixels.

also worthy of note, all those pixels need to be painted, so the demand on the graphics chip is higher. so for better gaming performance, the smaller screen is a better choice, also, most people don't notice all the extra detail on the screen, so if you're not very observant of those things, then maybe the 1440x900 screen is for you.

it's all personal preference.

on the 17" models, I'd spring for the 1920 in a heartbeat. having a display that large and not having 1920+ resolution (1080/1200p)... that's just silly.

 

Good info here, thanx.

 

"720p" and "1200p" just refer to how many pixels tall your screen is..

720p = the second number in your resolution is higher than 720. Such as 1440x900.

1200p = the second number in your resolution is higher than or equal to 1200. Such as 1920 x 1200.

1920 x 1080 is "1080p".

Personally on a 17 inch 1440 x 900 is pretty small... I'd go for the 1920x1200. The catch here though is the smaller resolution will make your laptop feel more powerful over time... You need less graphics power to run 1440x900 pixels than you do 1920x1200 pixels.. I usually have a lot of windows open and I like the biggest resolution possible. 1440x900 is perfect for a 15 inch laptop though. I wouldn't go any bigger than say 1440x900 or 1680x1050 on a 15 inch laptop...

More pixels on a small screen make things look tiny.. less pictures on a bigger screen makes things look much bigger.

 

It's funny that they label it 720P when it should really be 900P and 1200P if you want to play that game.

 

Yea.. I thought that was weird too...

 

I was thinking 720P for progressive scan.

 

Yea they should just call it 1440x900 and 1920x1200 but AW always has to be clever . Basically it is a marketing scheme. When people buy a notebook and they see 720P, they think of a high def TV. Then they see 1080P and they say to themselves "OOO I want 1080P it is so much better than 720P" and end up skimping on their GPU / processor (as one user actually did here).

 

Ha! I was almost that user.

 

I got the 1200p instead off the 720p with Dual cards on crossfire

 

im kind of deciding this too. but 17" is pretty small, when compared to a 27" monitor like i have or a 65" tv. i really think anything higher for under 17" is overkill. 1440 is more than engough. remember thats the defeault res of most lcd monitors that size. hell even the imac had a 20" screen with that res and its was ok.

EDIT: after checking newegg seems like 80% of monitors that size are running 1280 x 1024, so 1440 for a laptop is fine imho.