Dell m1530 updated it's screen res to 1920x1200

(Ah Subject type-o, I meant to put "its")

Full Hi Definition, glossy widescreen 15.4 inch LCD (1920x1200) & 2.0 M

It's $150 more.

Pretty good deal with that $599 off.

I am about to order it myself. I also get an additional $216.60 off with my moms Government job.

 

I wonder what types of screens these will be...Samsung...LG?

 

Hopefully they have learned from past mistakes and improved it.

 

All I have to say is why?

 

...Meanwhile Optometrists all over the world are rubbing their hands in glee....

Say 'good-bye' to your eyes.

 

it's only 50 bucks more than the 15.4 inch LCD(1680x1050) so what the hell.

 

It's great that they're offering the choice of a 1920x1200 screen, but I don't think I could handle that much resolution on a 15.4" screen. My WSXGA+ screen is just right for my Inspiron 1520.

 

WOW, that would be an intense resolution.

 

Good for Blu-ray, bad for everything else. Unless we could finally get a resolution-independent OS.

 

I've always wanted a 15" laptop with WUXGA, shame I'm too broke to buy another M1530.

 

I could not go any higher than WSXGA+. I think WSXGA+ is even too high for many people on a 15" notebook. WUXGA would be like reading micro fonts. Granted you can go in and change your icon & font sizes from defaults but it's too much work IMO. I wonder how many people would actually order this?

 

That is a tight resolution on a screen that size. WUXGA works well on my 17", I'd not enjoy actually working with it on a 15".

Good for HD films, but too tight for actual usage IMO.

 

I agree with you on this. Before getting the M1530 I was looking at the M1730 with WUXGA. That would have been a great setup. On the 15" tht's streching it too much for me.

 

it's hard enough finding a nice desktop wallpaper for 1440x900. i've been searching for days for good ones but there are very few (except for landscapes and sunsets) that are in 1440x900 widescreen.

 

Any that is in widescreen will work.

 

I was just deciding if 1680x1050 would be too small for me. I like the higher resolution because it looks better than just a standard basic laptop you find but I think the WUXGA would not work out too well.

 

^IMO, 1920x1200 is spot-on for 17". 1680x1050 may be slightly pushing it on a 15". but it would be only marginally smaller than 1440x900.

Take a sheet of paper, and print a page of text in a landscape orientation with a font size of 9(I'm guessing here). Now, take that sheet to a photocopier, and reduce it by 17%. Put the two side by side, and that'll probably(possibly?) give an indication of how the difference will be in actual use.

You'll have 17% more space on the screen, but everything will be small by the same proportion.

Different people have different eyes, and like/dislike different sizes of fonts/icons/text/etc on their screen. By far the best way for you to judge it would be to compare the two directly, but this isn't always possible...

 

Yeah, I never knew till I started looking up laptops last year that you could have different lcd resolutions at the same physical size. I figured the 19" wide is 1440x900 and the 20" is 1680x1050 and the 24" is 1920x1200. Of course it looks worse to run 1440x900 on a 1680x1050 than a 1440x900 on a 1440x900 right?

 

^Yes, but it's far less nasty on the eye than panels from a decade ago.

Personally, I've got young eyes which tend to function well. I find the extra real estate from the higher resolution invaluable. I'd be ordering the highest resolution screen I thought I'd be comfortable with, and if it was too small, I'd try it at the lower resolution. If I didn't like it, I'd probably return the machine and order one with a lower-specification screen.

It's funny though, most people tend to adjust to having a higher-resolution screen, and despite everything being somewhat smaller, it begins to feel 'right' ever so quickly.

 

If you don't like the screen size at 1920x1200 you can always adjust it to a lower resolution.

 

it will look like crap. You have to set the res at its Native res.

 

I think most LCDs are best viewed in their native resolution. So running a 1920x1200 at 1680x1050 would most likely give a less pleasing display...

 

I'm game for giving it a try, and I'm within my 21 days on my third machine. I finally got an LG, but the build I got sucked. Plus, My LG has a dead pixel...

How bad can it be? It's available on the Alienware 15.4" laptops. I'm just going to check with those guys.

 

LOL...i thought 1680x1050 was small...but this is just WOW...micro sized text

 

I think my font size on my 1680x1050 is a little bit too BIG......

 

1680x1050 is perfect for 15"
1920x1200 (Full HD) looks like a dream

Q: How can I discover that a LCD screen is LED or CCFL ?
for example my screen is LPLF300

 

I have the same screen as you (LPLF300) and I'm sure it's a CCFL. How do I know? I just installed this screen in my Inspiron 1520 (got it off eBay) and I looked at all the numbers on the back of it before I sealed the computer back up. On the back of the screen was a small sticker that said something like "CCFL Product - Warranty Void if Removed."

 

Is there LG LED WSXGA+ ?