Does WXGA look "fuzzy" to you?

Hi,

While at a conference this week I had a chance to work with an Inspiron 6000 with WXGA resolution. The text SIZE was actually PERFECT for me -- but most of the text appeared to be a little FUZZY or BLURRY. Not totally fuzzy, just slightly. Kind of like when you go to the eye doctor and get asked "which of these two look clearer and sharper, A or B?"... "A" looks perfectly sharp, but "B" is just *slightly* fuzzy. Well, the 6000 looked like "B". Just slightly fuzzy.

By the way, I tried it with ClearType off and on (and calibrated). With ClearType off the type was sharper, but I saw the tiny little dots that make up each letter. I didn't like that. With ClearType on and calibrated, I no longer saw the tiny dots, but the text became fuzzy.

Has anyone else here experienced this "slightly fuzzy" text on the 6000?

Here's the dilemma: I feel like the text size on WXGA is perfect for me, but I'm concerned that the fuzzy text will give me a headache. I'm guessing that if I go up to WSXGA+ the text will be probably be sharper, but I'm concerned that some text might be too small for my eyes to read. I could get WSXGA+ and increase the the font size and PPI settings, but I've read that doing so can make some web pages look "out of whack", so I'm not sure I wanna do that.

Anyone have any experience with these issues? Any suggestions or comments?

Thanks!

 

theres millions of combinations of fonts and text sizes, what font and text size appeared blurry to you?

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by MoZirry

 

no, I used the i6000 and it was fine and definitely not blurry. It sounds as if the DPI is set wrong on that notebook, here's how you would fix it:

Go to Control Panel
Select Display
Go to the Settings Tab
Click "Advanced" Button
This brings up graphics card settings, on the General Tab (which is automatically selected) from the drop down select DPI setting "Normal Size" instead of the 125% size. This should be 96 DPI. Click OK.
Reboot the notebook.

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weird, my 6000 seems pretty darn sharp, with and without clear type

U may have a defective display??

What are your background settings, 32 bit 1280x800??

 

Laptops don't use CRT's ,they use LCD's - they work best at their native resolutions. If you buy a monitor that has a native resolution of 1024x768, any change to that will result in a clarity loss because there are a fixed amount of physical pixels on the screen. It looks clear only at the native resolutions. THere's not way it's "natively" blurry.

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<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by MoZirry
What are your background settings, 32 bit 1280x800??
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Yep, exactly.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by netspots

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Dragon_Myr
The i6000 I had ordered for my brother for college and have submited a review on has this slightly out of focus effect. But I'm not sure if that's characteristic of the screen or not. I didn't find it annoying enough to comment about. This is on the 1680x1050 screen too. I figured it was cheap enough it didn't really matter and wasn't worth the trouble to chat with Dell about.<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
It gave me a pretty bad headache. Otherwise I wouldn't have cared either.

By the way, I found someone else having the same problem:

http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12851&SearchTerms=WXGA

Apparently it's not just me.

 

ClearType is like anti-aliasing for fonts. Additional pixels (in various colors) are added along the edges of the font to smooth out the transition between text and background. By nature, this will distort text on ANY monitor.

 

to zoom in and out of your documents or internet searching, try this, it may help you out.

"While Holding CTRL, slide either the mouse scroll key or touchpad scroll key up and down to zoom in and out of the document"

Not only does it enlarge the type easily, it autowraps the text so that you can still view the document normally.

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<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by netspots
It gave me a pretty bad headache. Otherwise I wouldn't have cared either.

By the way, I found someone else having the same problem:

http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12851&SearchTerms=WXGA

Apparently it's not just me.<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>Have you tried a reformat yet? I'm going to give that a try tomorrow and see if the screen looks a bit different after the reformat. My current XPS2 Samsung is very sharp and on a reformated system.

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Mine looks great. However, in games that I play, like World of Warcraft, I had to change the resolution on the game to get it right. I can understand your pain with blurry text, it really can be annoying. At first I thought it was just my eyes, but then once I switched it I realized I had the wrong resolution selected.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Merwenn

 

I did a reformat and now the text on the 6000 is completely sharp and clear at all locations on the screen and at all times. Cleartype is probably the issue here.

This screen, btw, is identical to my XPS2 Samsung screen, just smaller.

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That tip about pressing control and scolling in and out is very effective, thank you Mozirry

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no problem! [:I]