Do you really like your I9300's 17" screen?

Received my new I9300 today. MAN this thing is HUGE! I'm having a hard time adjusting to it.

Anyone else feel awkward with this huge screen?

With all the realestate available on this notebook, you would have thought Dell could have used a full size keyboard.

 

When I first got my 9300, I was totally surpised too. I couldn't believe how big/heavy it was (guess I should believe reader's opinions more often). It took me a few days to get used to it. All of my friends thought it was cool having such a big screen, but I felt like I had a TV for a laptop. After a few days of using it nonstop, I got adjusted to the size and the fact of it being a widescreen. Now its hard for me to go back to my desktop because of the monitor being so much smaller. It doesn't make sense to me either about the keyboard, plus the subwoofer being on the bottom-side of the laptop.

If you don't get adjusted to the screen in the next fews days, Dell does have a 21 day (from date of invoice) return policy, so you could get your money back if you wanted to.

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Yea, I knew about the 21 day trial, but after selling my 5100, the rebates, what it would have cost me to upgrade the 5100 if I kept it, ect...I'm only out $300 more to keep this. [ ] And thats with the 3years of warranty ( which I'm going to try and bump up to 4 ).

Guess I'll just have to suffer...lol

 

I have no idea why people like that thing, it is gray (actually graish blue). I got it yesterday and tried to adjust using nVidia's driver, but no chance. I have XGA+ thingy, having hard time reading small.

Basically I made a few pictures side by side with ThinkPad A30 and it looks GRAY comparing to IBM. Colors are doll, IBM's colors look bright and juicy even that thing is 4 years old. Dell does not even display web pages correctly, I see the frame filled in gray on IBM and I see no frame on Dell at all, just a line around it, plas graphics are distorted, have shady dark spots on the bottom of the screen (light is not spreading correctly). What a waste of time and money. Will return it on monday.

But the main reason I am returning it, caz the keyboard. I am hitting panel edge infront of space bar when I press it. Can imagine how many times I bump that thing, every word for that matter. Bummer laptop, I duno what people like in it so much.

 

Mine does not appear grey to me and I will say this when I first got it I had it sitting on a part of my desk which had the screen facing the door. People in the hall would back up and come in just to see what it is! I never met anyone who thinks the screen is off.

As far as bigness is concerned, I use mine for software development almost exclusively. It cannot be beat for this. I have the currnet version of Whidbey installed and I can keep both of the toolbars pinned while still having a window large enough to edit in. I wish my desktop was as good.

I9300 2.0ghz 1.0gb ram 100gb disk 256MB NVIDIA 6800 dvd rw UXGA Bluetooth Intel WiFi Media Center

 

You've got UXGA, me has XGA, is there no difference? Its gray and has shadowy lines across from the top to the bottom, if you don't mind I can send you the pictures. [ !]

 

go ahead. the only off thing which is something I have gotten used to is the theme has what I will call bright title bars. The top is lighter than the bottom. Otherwise no lines, whites look more or less white movies look good.

I9300 2.0ghz 1.0gb ram 100gb disk 256MB NVIDIA 6800 dvd rw UXGA Bluetooth Intel WiFi Media Center