Important question for any 6000 WSXGA+ Users...

On a 6000 laptop, the WXGA screen is perfect for me size-wise. Unfortunately, I'm not happy with the way the WXGA screen looks (poor quality vs. my other LCD screens). I understand that the WSXGA+ screen is a better quality screen and that I'll probably like the overall look of it better... BUT I'm concerned that everything on the screen will be to small for me. I know that you can adjust the text size using Firefox, but I'm also concerned about the size of graphics & pictures on web pages, not just the text.

So here's my question:

I know that if you increase the DPI on a WSXGA+ screen it will make everything larger (which will help me) but does increasing the DPI mess anything up? Will it make text look fuzzy? Will graphics or pictures look jaggy? And if so, is there a fix for this (like "UseHR"?) or does the fix only work if the DPI is set to 96?

This is really important to me, so I appreciate your help. Thanks...

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by chong67

 

I will be getting my 6000 next week.

I had mine with WSXGA+.

Now if it gets too small and I go down to WXGA, will the screen looks poor quality?

 

I got my 6000d with the WSXGA+ screen about two weeks ago. I was misinformed about the implications of getting the higher rez screen when I ordered.

I thought that since I use a lot of graphics programs - photoshop, illustrator, etc., the higher rez would impact "quality" of the image, what it really does it increase the amount of information viewable on the screen. This hasn't been a problem. I set my rez to 1280 x 800 to keep text legible and was satisfied with the display. I don't think anyone looking at my screen would see a problem or know that I'm using a non-native rez --it looks perfectly fine.

Nonetheless I ran into a problem when trying to watch a dvd last nite for the first time. The image was blockly/pixelated. I went online for answers and that's when I discovered that using an lcd screen at a rez other than it's native resolution is not recommended (and leads to the problems I had with the dvd). I changed to full rez and watched the movie fine.

I am now trying to decide whether to return the laptop while I'm still in the 21 day return period and get one with the wxga screen. I have 20/20 vision but using the screen at full wsxga+ rez is annoying to me. I'm fine with using the lower rez setting I've been using but only if I can find out definitively that to do so will not permanently damage the display or shorten it's life span. Does anybody know the answer to this question?

 

After my first post I searched online for answers to the question I posed: Will using an LCD at a non-native resolution damage the display or shorten the life span?

What I've found so far is that the warnings about using a non-native resolution seem to pertain to image quality, not hardware damage. In other words, most people feel that the quality dropoff in using a non-native resolution is too great to justify using an LCD at anything other than it's native resolution.

I could find no site that said using a non-native rez would damage the display.

In my case I'm fine with lowering the rez to a more comfortable size for me to read text - the quality dropoff is not bad enough to impede my enjoyment of the screen. I also enjoy having the extra resolution available for when I am working on large images in my graphics programs.

I'm keeping it.

 

Oh no, I am having a headache.

The reason I return the 700M its because its just way too small to see. My eyes was killing me.

Now I got the 6000, but I got the WSXGA+ and you say running in other than native resolution will not be good?

My computer is still in testing stage. Can I tell then to halt and change to WXGA and get other things?