1530 w/ WUXGA is going back..

Well, I got my 1530 yesterday and after waiting weeks for my notebook and reading lots of posts of people who said everything is TINY with a WUXGA screen, I didn't believe it.

I don't consider myself a picky person, and I figured I could deal with the smallness of everything that comes with such a high resolution. I have tried to get used to the resolution, but it just isn't worth it for the amount of money I paid for this machine. I also didn't configure some things that I wanted including bluetooth originally. So I went ahead and called in a return, and ordered myself a 1530 w/ an LED screen.

 

... Thanks for the info?

 

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Yeah, I thought the same way. I didn't want to always have to lean up close to my screen just to read the text even though I know I could adapt to it, though it really would be annoying.

Great decision in deciding to go with the LED, I have the LED myself and the display blows me away. Though I did wish there was a WSXGA+ version, I dont regret my decision. Im sure you will love your new configuration!

On a side note, the price you paid for what you got isn't really bad at all, I mean 1200 for HD screen along with some of the other options is a pretty good deal.

 

Is it possible to lower the resolution to something like 1440 x 900?

Yes, yes, I know it's nowhere NEAR ideal compared to running at native. I'm just asking if the option is there. I just got a WUXGA display because the added resolution is going to be extremely helpful in photo and video work, but for everything else I see no reason to have so much space and was planning to just lower the resolution for everyday tasks (again, I don't care about blurry text or anything like that).

 

Yes the option is always there.

There will be more than blurry text. If you have lowered resolutions before on an LCD monitor, lowering from WSXGA+ to WXGA+ despite blurrier, looks much better compared to WUXGA to WXGA+ just because of the HUGE difference in pixels resulting in HUGE numbers of pixels having to overlap. You have been warned. not to mention photoshop photos and web browsing will also look blurry resulting in your photoshop photos to not look accurate...

 

All photo and video work will be done in the native resolution of 1920 x 1200. The thing is, I don't want to deal with that resolution for normal usage, but I also need more than 1440 x 900 for my video projects. It's a trade-off I'm not crazy about making, but it's better than the alternative of something that's perfect for light usage but unusable for 1080p video.

If I didn't have that need, however, I'd definitely prefer a lower resolution screen.

 

Yeah when you downscale the resolution to say, 1680x1050 it looks ok, but the colors are washed out and everything looks too soft rather than sharp. Can't wait to get the LED..

 

I'm an avid photoshopper myself doing a lot of web development and programming and making lots of big wallpapers. Developing on WSXGA is awesome since you get all the freedom, but developing on 1920 is a different story since oftentimes small text will be microscopic and perspectivewise, though somethings looks nice in WUXGA, when you actually use it in say WSXGA or WXGA+, I noticed that there are slight differences just because of the fact 1920 is just so large of a resolution on a 15.4 inch screen, graphics and such become very very small. Developmentwise I'd much prefer WSXGA+, though since there is no LED option for it along with many graininess problems for the res itself, I went with the LED and though yes, it is smaller, its not as bad. Amazing screen blows me away.

I wonder whos bright idea it was to not offer LED WSXGA+ displays.

 

Yeah WUXGA took me months to get used to. My laptop wasn't returnable, so I had no choice.

Definitely understandable that you're giving up on it... I have mine paired with a 24" WUXGA LCD screen, so having the WUXGA on both displays is quite useful.

 

WUXGA is the just the native hardware spec. It is up to the software (and the user's configuring of it) to make the proper adjustment for the specific hardware to have fonts the size desired. Once the size of the font is appropriate for the individual user, nothing beats the clarity of a HD font. But don't blame the hardware. A too-small font on a HD screen is just improper software setup.

 

Just went from an 8600 w/LCD to a XPS 1530 both had a 1920x1200 resolution. I had the 8600 set at 1280x800 for most of my work with no problems , The 1530 Nvedia card is another story and not the same configerations even at the same resolution. Lowering the resolution did not make it blur but the sizing was either to large or to small so after playing with the settings increasing and decreasing font sizes for 1 month I've finally settled for 1400x900 still a bit of a strain but 1280 is way to large and not proporitional to what I had before. Hope that helps!

 

Yeah... the degredation is clearly noticable though... there is bluriness, you are just used to the bluriness from using it so much. lol. LCDs are not like CRTs. When you have a WUXGA screen, going down to a different resolution non-native, pixels stack on top of each other which causes the quality decrease.

Seriously you should have gone with the native WXGA+ LED since you are using it at the 1440x900. Or at least returned it and ordered a 1440x900 LCD. It would have been much cheaper.

 

1400x900 is fine do not really have any blur if it's there it is so minumal it's not noticable. The LCD was perfect at 1280x800 even though the native was 1920x1200 so I naturally assumed the XPS would be the same. But their not the proportions are different. It's not the resolution that's bothering me as much as the Nvedia behavior itself in combination with the Vista Ultimate . Thank G I didn't pay for this machine, it was a replacement so they had to equal what I had previousely and I can't return it. I require the different resolutions for different projects so I will just have to live with it or buy another machine without Nvidia or Vista and keep this one for specific uses.

Dell was awesome in replacing my previouse machine with this XPS 1530 it's over 2K if I purchased it but it's not really a biz machine it's a gaming unit with all the bells & whistles. I hate "Vista" want my XP Pro back:cry:

 

Just out of curiosity, how old are all of you. I got the WUXGA screen a couple of days ago and the amount of screen real estate is amazing and I can't go back.

I'm 29.

 

Man I have the 16xx 10xx rez and it's pretty small..LOL if I would have gotten that screen I would have had to have someone read it to me ..I am 20 with approx 20 yrs experience...cheers..

 

A very young 60, lol. Yes I agree for some applications the WUXGA is awesome but not for everyday use on a 15.4 screen. More comfortable using 1400x900 res and adjusting the fonts larger for everyday use. No blur or distortions. Set Icon's to classic and that reduced the real estate on the desktop. 1400x900 is almost equal to 1280x800 on my LCD in window size and proportions.

Boy! you must have incredable Vision if your comfortable using WUXGA for everything

 

I ordered a 1920x1200, but I'm 18 so I hope I can live with it on a daily basis. I personally will not need the high resolution all the time, but there will be certain applications I use that will be much better on 1920x1200 vs. 1440x900. I would have got 1680x1050 if it were an option when I ordered mine. And I did not want to go down to 1440x900, as I used an iMac 17" that had a 1440x900 resolution and the desktop space was tiny.

 

Well at 18 (a puppy) lol and for gamming you will love the resolution. But I'm not sure how you will at 1920x1200 for everyday use or even 1680x1050. Whats great about the higher res is can adjust it to where your most comfortable. I know some say it's not as good but I've not experianced that problem. Again it's preferance and ones own vision. As for the desktop just right click on it and switch it to classic view and it will shrink the icons and give you more desktop Good luck & happy putering.

 

I just received my m1530 with WUXGA screen and I am absolutely amazed with this screen. Great resolution and incredible real estate. I am very with my decision.....

I do not understand why people are complaining so much.

 

The only thing that is not good on a WUXGA will probably be web browsing and typing papers. Although you can just hit Ctrl + and make the text bigger in Firefox. For photoshop, illustrator, video editing, multitasking, etc. the 1920x1200 is the best option.