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I love the screen on my 1210 - it's a good deal brighter than the one that I had on my previous ASUS. That said, it's certainly not as bright as the LCDs that I use as secondary monitors.
For the m1210 there's a reported 3 brands of screens (in order of best to worst) AUO, Samsung, and Toshiba.
The m1210's screen's don't even compare to the 700m's screen. As far as i'm concerned the 700m has the best screens available in the 12.1" dell market (the m1210 has severe light leakage, faded colors and terrible viewing angles).
I have the toshiba screen for my m1210, and for the screen to be viewable, you have to look at it straight on.
The M1210's
full of amenities, save the screen in my opinion. The AUO screen I have suffers from small viewing angles and the TrueLife isn't as great as I thought it might've been. I wish I had a matte solution, but I believe Dell doesn't offer that for their M1210's.
Overall, the screen is OK, but it's far from fantastic.
I just got an XPS 1210 12.1 inch. The Truebright screen is way too shiny and reflective -- you have to keep moving around to avoid having a direct light source behind you shining on the screen.
I really wanted a matte finish (a sales rep told me there was a matte option, which it turns out there is not -- oops). I might be returning this otherwise awesome(!!) machine just because of that.
Here's my story - on my third m1210 (first two returned for hard drive and mother board problems, third one is awesome!). The first two had SEC screens - really bright, poor viewing angles. The third has the Toshiba screen, pretty good viewing angles not as bright as the SEC. That being said, DVD's look really nice (Star Wars Episode III is my test), but I also plan on updating the stock Dell NVidia drivers to the 101.7 drivers on laptopvideotogo. I understand those drivers bring back the digital vibrance option which can significantly brighten the screen.
The best screen I've ever seen is the QDS screen on my old HP.
Oddly, I have an AUO screen and love it. But mine was also a first production run IIRC. I have pic's somewhere on this site, and I've never had any issues with color or brightness. A little leakage, but nothing like my Samsung 225BW
I called Dell so see whether they could put a matte screen for a D420 onto my M1210. But, it turns out these two are not interchangeable, the hardware it set up differently.
If you look at the rest of the specs, the D420 isn't a bad machine, but the M1210 overall is just better, faster, etc. for the price.
Has anyone tried the 3M Privacy Filter to fight glare and reflections? I'd like to hear about people's experience using them. If it doesn't work well on the M1210 I might return it (btw -- a lot of stores don't stock them for the 12.1 inch).
I have the AUO screen on my M1210. Horizontal viewing angles are quite good, vertical is pretty limited. Screen is nice and bright. The glare is annoying at times, but I found it to not be as bad as some other laptops (like my old Toshiba).
Also, fiddling with Nvidia color settings seems to help a lot as my screen looked kind of washed out when I first got it, and now looks much more rich and vibrant.
It's in the NVida control panel, under tools. I am not sure where exactly on the new panel NVidia has been using. It's a color correction thing that's worked on every panel I have.
It's a setting program, basically. Asks you to adjust brightness, centering, then does the color setup.
I'll take a closer look as to where exactly it is when I get home.
EDIT: Ok, it's the option labeled "Run Display Optimization Wizard" in the new conrol panel. It looks like this:
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
