Thinking of getting XPS 15 (again) with 1080p, but one problem....

Hey.

Thinking of getting XPS 15 (again) with 1080p, but one problem....I dont like it when I have to use zoom tools in order to work on browser.

DPI at 125% is "not bad" but I would still prefer the 100% if everything was not so small.....

I have had XPS 15 before the first version, with 1080p screen and the only thing that bothered me was using browser with extensions that zoom to 110% so everything seems better, and then some of the websites dont show up right so I have to go back to 100% in order to view them correctly, it was very annoying.

Please share your experience in how you browse? Do you have any zoom extensions in your browsers?

Also are all of you with 1080p screens using 125% DPI?

 

thats why i stuck with the stock screen

 

I use 125% dpi through windows. I like it this way. If you have problems reading things, you can adjust the resolution. Things might be a little fuzzier, but if you can't read well at 1080p, you probably won't notice the difference. The color gamut ratio is the main reason to upgrade. It can display so many more colors than the 720p display. Perfect for videos, photography, and just plain old accurate color reproduction.

 

125% is fine for me, its no problem.

But how do you use your browser? as everything is so small......

 

No squint add-on for FF

 

Someone posted that they switched the resolution to 720p on the 1080p display and it looked fantastic. Could someone please test 720p on their XPS right now and provide some feedback, how does everything look?

Check out this video of an XPS with 1080p screen: YouTube - Dell XPS 15 L502X Review by The Digital Digest

Everything seems really readable and nice. I sent a message asking for his display setting and whether he's using browser zoom...no reply yet. After watching this video I was at peace....but I would really like to know his settings so I can tune mine to the same. Could you guys guess as to what his settings are? He's using google chrome.

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Ya, please update this thread if he replies back so others can know aswell.

Also, as I have used 1080p screen on xps 15 before, I am pretty sure text will be very small unless you use a zoom extension of some kind for your browser.

 

I use 15.4" 1920x1200 (which has even smaller text) at the 100% DPI setting with no issues whatsoever. It's an RGBLED display which is a lot like the Dell's B+RGLED display, and I can lower the resolution to 1440x900 and everything still looks fine. The pixel density is high enough that lower resolutions don't look bad.

Believe me, you'll hate the quality of the 720p screen now that you've used the B+RGLED.

 

Yes and one more thing i had noticed on XPS 15 previous version was that if I lowered the resolution to 1600x900 for example, it was blurry and not clear at all, so it is not an option....

 

I'll post the settings if and when he replies...I asked him days ago. It might help if others comment asking for the same info.

Did you notice that everything looked great in the video, no blur etc. By the size of the task bar it also looked like he wasn't running in 1080p (hard to discern, what do you think?). Also I heard there was some blurring in 1600x900 but NONE when in 720p which surprised this person.

My main concern is with text on websites and in MS Office programs...

 

1600x900 is closer to 1920x1080 than 1366x768 is, so there will be more blurring. I get a lot of blurring when I try to run 1680x1050 on a 1920x1200 display, but when I run at 1280x800 or 1440x900 it's actually pretty alright.

 

OK I just got a reply back from the creator of that video. The screen was running at 1080p and at 125% DPI, no other changes.

Sites he showed during the video (Engadget and CNN) looked perfectly readable..infact those sites now look massive to me on my computer (1280x800), it was quite eye opening.

Needless to say I'm super excited about receiving my new and fully loaded XPS. Just bought starcraft 2, a cooling pad and a wireless game pad in preparation for it's arrival