Which screen would you get for a Studio XPS?

945P or 1080P?

I am concerned that 1080P on a 15/16 inch monitor will make text just too small ... but I see a lot of folks that seem to have ordered or have 1080P.

What are your thoughts? If you have 900P (for you Studio folks) or 945P, do you regret it not getting 1080P? If you have 1080P, is the text too small?

 

I find 1080p to be too small for me since I wear glasses, hence I'd get the 945p.

 

1080p RGBLED always.

I'm getting my laptop replaced and right now they keep messing up the screen, I'm not going to accept their exchange until I get my 1080p RGBLED.

 

my vote is SEC5448.........why just miss the chance to get the best and most honoured laptop screen on the market !!!


ps...its also difference to have 16" instead of 15.6".....the RGB screen is the "real" 16:9 format.
@sgogeta4...ever heard about 120 DPi.

 

I don't understand why text size is an issue. Simply apply DPI scaling to your desired size. As an example I run a 1920x1200 17" and can't imagine running a 1440x900 on 17" as people are commonly getting now. I just scale up the fonts and I have an easy-to-read screen with tack sharp resolution!

EDIT: In my humble opinion. Unless the price difference is small, no need to spend extra for an RGBLED. That's for photopros and others who really need to make sure their colors are on point.

 

To go from 945p to 1080p in Canada is $300/400 (WLED/RGBLED) to upgrade. Not worth it IMO.

 

The 1080p RGBLED is definately worth it, without doubt. If you find the text too small then you can have the text size increased. Not that difficult. The RGBLED is amazing when viewing movies, pictures or when using rendering programs like AutoCAD. I can't stand looking at other laptop screens now that I am spoiled lol. I am more than pleased with my purchase

 

I'm not sure I understand the question.

I've had a 17" UXGA screen for five years. There is an ATI button in the task tray that has allowed me to use a 1440 * 900 screen resolution this whole time which is adequate for me and my +2 reading glasses. The highest resolution of 1920 x 1200 is available, which allows to me to view HD movies (1920 by 1080) at highest resolution, if I want, but that high resolution is too bothersome for me to read (text too small).

Thus (what it is that I do not understand about the question) are you saying that with the new 1080p RGBLED screens I would be STUCK with that superfine resolution and could not easily change it to about 1600 by 900 when browsing and not watching HD movies)? If that is the case than I would not get such a superfine screen.

The aspect ratio of my 17" UXGA screen is 1.6 (not HD (1920 by 1080) which is 1.77777). The 1.6 A/R is FINE. I don't mind a couple thin "bands" at the top and bottom or sides and can always stretch the video output that LITTLE bit and not mind it. It certainly is a lot less stretching than you easily notice on those ubiquitous widescreen televisions that everyone just stretches standard TV output to fit and thinks it's HD. In fact, 17" with 1.6 a/r screen is PREFERRED (love the way it lays out the browser space) and the new 1.7777 a/r screens (1920 by 1080) are a DISAPPOINTMENT. But if I upgrade I guess I gotta get it at 1.777 like everyone seems to think it should be.

Some think the 1.7777 ratio makes it more intuitive to compare two windows side by side - I could agree with that.

As I use Internet cafes in my travels I run across a lot of HD aspect screens that stretch browsers (everything) from left too right. THIS is annoying.

Anyway, I would like to be SURE that I can lower the text resolution on the new 1080p RGBLED screens easily from 1920x1080 to about 1600x900! They don't "stretch" things left/right!? Anyone?

 

You ideally want to run the screen at it's native resolution which in the case of the RGB screen is 1920x1080. You will be able to set a lower resolution but the image quality is never going to be as good because the two the sert res and the native don't match. This is what you're doing now.

What you should be doing is increasing the DPI used in Windows and this will allow the use of the high res and larger fonts.

 

text size I don't think is too small.. maybe at first coming from a different screen, but it just simply amazing. The colors and just being able to fit more on screen. I think I would prefer a 16:10 screen though just so I don't have to scroll as much up and down, but still, I can't go back to either a smaller screen or resolution after using what I have.. soo so nice.

 

THANKS for reminding me about that. I guess I wasn't comfortable with going beyond the "normal" (96 dpi) font size, which increases the desktop icon spacings. (I can see where you can then increase the desktop font size in windows settings, but not decrease).

Anyway, I'm now comfortable with 120 dpi (1.25%) at 1680x1050. Luv it! More browser space! I may be there for another few years as I do not think I am willing to upgrade to an HDMI notebook that does not support S-Video output as well. AND lose my 1.6 screen? Discussion for another thread, I guess.

 

Glad to help

 

what I would mean to say is "does not support output to standard video, as well".