Does these screen shots on m1530 look "grainy?"

I recently bought a refurb m1530. I think my m1530 has the LG screen as the display properties says LPL0301 however my packing slip says its a 15.4 WXGA Samsung screen.

I had previously posted that I was experiencing some eye fatigue and slighly less sharp images as compared to my CRT monitor on my desktop.

If I look real close (i.e. 2 inches away) at the screen I can see a grid matrix on the screen. Is this normal? My CRT looks like it has dots if I look real close to it.

I attached 3 pics. of my screen. Does mine appear to be gainy?

I know they are on the dark side as my flash kept reflecting off the screen.

 

You will never be able to tell from a photo. Its obvious. If you are questioning it, you are fine. If its grainy, you will go aww ewww i cant even look at that / read that!

PS, you not supposed to look that close, that may be reason for eye strain. Also, sometimes lowering the brightness a notch helps.

As for the grid pattern you see, those are just the actual pixels.

 

Yes, you will always see a grid of squares on LCD screens, those are just the individual pixels. Also, as the above poster stated you'll never be able to tell from a photo unless the grain is absolutely brutal, which in that case you would be able to instantly tell.

 

Heh, what you see is the pixels (which you'll se on any LCD / TFT) screen.

 

Takes about a few days up to a week to get used to the *matrix* you are talking about. I switched from an old dying Samsung CRT 19 inches to a beautiful 22 inches LG LCD and at the beginning I thought I would never get used to it Believe me though, one morning you wake up, you check your screen and everything is just woah and you never want to go back to a CRT anymore

 

lol I'm using a 21" 1999 Sony Multiscan 500PS for my desktop. Does 2048*1536 at 60Hz and i got it for free.

 

"Grid matrix"? As already mentioned, pixels on an LCD. Perfectly normal. Besides, you aren't supposed to look at the screen that up close. If it's grainy, you should be able to tell immediately when normally viewing a screen [like, a feet or so away from the screen].

I guess it's natural to be paranoid after being exposed to all these complaints in the forums. But come on, having a grainy screen isn't decided by the brand of display you get. You can't just go, "OMG IT'S A SAMSUNG IT'S GRAINYYYYYY!" If it's grainy, it's something you spot immediately. I understand it's a bit difficult since this, I assume, is your first time using an LCD. Maybe try to compare yours with other LCD's to have a sense of what's a good LCD and what's a bad one.

On a side note, my display is also LPL0301 and it looks great [even before I knew its product ID. lol]. Some slight light bleed at the bottom and the bottom-right corner of the display looks a tad darker than the rest of the screen, but otherwise it's perfect.

 

If you think it's bad ask dell for a replacement screen, If you think it will suffice then bear with it for the years. Personally I can't tell from the pictures but if you start to become more paranoid i'd ask dell for a replacement screen.

 

Prowling around in these forums too long can make you "think" you have issues that you dont. Bear in mind that while you see tons of complaints, what your not seeing is the much larger majoraty that are completely happy and not having any issues nor anything to complain about. Your eye fatigue could simply be from the unusal position you are now working in as opposed from your CRT, give yourself a little more time and I'd say you will become acustomed to it. Bottom line, as stated before, if you have to ask if you have an issue, you highly likely do not.

 

Thanks for all the replies. I think that as stated above I just need to get used to the Dell Truelife screens. I have an older IBM Thinkpad for work and it does not have the glossy screen so I was also using that as a comparison.

The colors on my Dell Laptop are more vivid and richer and I am happy with the laptop otherwise. I think I'm just not used to a screen this bright. Even at 0 it still seems bright to me. If I unplug it and just use the laptop off of the battery the brightness seems to mellow out as well.

Any additional replies are welcome as well.

 

With the battery your adjusting the brightness of the backlight, dropping it from max to somewhere in the middle, i take it you've been adjusting the video cards settings then, not the lcds itself, hold the function key down and use the left/right arrow keys, that will let you adjust the backlight brightness. from very dim to sometimes painfully bright. The dimmer the light, the better the battery life, when plugged in it sets itself to max, you can change that in the bios.

 

Thanks that seems to work. How would I go about changing this in the BIOS so that it will remember my backlight brightness settings?

As you stated above, when I unplug then plug back in, it goes back to full brightness.

 

Ok, I figured out the BIOS settings. I just hit F2 at the start up screen and selected Video.

For some reason though, it didn't apply my video settings even though I saved it on exit. Strange.