Just got my 1505, thinking about returning it...

I like everything about my 1505 so far except the display. I went with the UltraSharp TrueLife WXGA+, and using it just gives me a major headache. The high amount of glare and a much larger resolution than I'm used to is a terrible combination. In addition, the lower right corner of my display is noticeably darker than the rest of the screen for some reason.

I've bumped up the DPI settings and adjusted all the font size options in XP and IE, but there are tons of web pages that have fonts which are unsizeable... on those pages, it's ridiculous because some fonts will look like size 24, and some will look like size 4.

My resolution is 1440x900... I can't IMAGINE the WSXGA+ size on a 15.4 screen.

This is my first widescreen laptop, and I don't see the benefit of a widescreen at all, unless you are using it solely for DVDs and gaming. Web pages and spreadsheets generally have FAR more vertical content. I wanted a machine that I can play games on, so I needed a nice graphics card, but they only seem to come on widescreens these days.

Sucks.

 

Odd, I was similarily worried when I bought my D620, thinking I should've gone for the 1280 x 800 WXGA and not the 1440 x 900 WXGA+, but I think the WXGA+ is fine; I can read the fonts easily and nothing is too small. I did enable Truetype or whatever its called though.

 

You know I thought I would never get used to the size of the fonts on some web pages, but now that I have had my E1505 with the same screen I love it. I can see so much more on a webpage without scrolling on it.

 

get the Ultrabrite WSXGA+ (1680x1050) and your problems will be over IMHO... awesome screen,,, coming from wxga 1280+800, my new 1505's screen is really amazing...

not too brite but sharp as hell,.. I will never go back to wxga...

 

Get the 1440. Its plenty and you wont have to deal with the reflective screen.

 

Use Firefox to increase your font size, it does better job than IE. Hold Ctrl and scroll down ur mouse.

 

Give it a few days, your eyes will adjust. They did when i went from a WXGA 15.4 (e1505) to a sxga+ 14.1 (t60). At first I could not STAND the higher resolution, I eve got my eyes checked, lol. Now anything lower looks like a toy.

Of course if you are not happy, make sure that you get what you want. It's no fun having a toy you don't want to play with.

 

I love having high resolution. I am running 1920x1200 on 1705. It is great being able to put a full Word document next to a full webpage. There is just so much real estate to use for various things. Only downside is finding a background that looks good on the resolution.

 

This is what happens when you don’t do your homework before buying . Anyways, give it some time and you’ll get used to it.

In my opinion widescreen only has advantages over standard screen, more width is better not only for movies and gaming; it is also very useful if you are running a development environment or any other pro application (Photoshop, 3Dstudio, CAD tools etc..) cos there are so many control windows (And they are normally meant and efficient when placed along the sides). It is true that most spreadsheets and WebPages have more vertical content, but increasing height to cater that has very low significance compared to benefits you get by increasing the width. Try using a 12” Widescreen and normal screen, you will see what I mean.

 

You should be thinking about returning microsoft XP, and not the laptop.
Higher resolution = good. Higher resolution means better clarity. Higher resolution does not mean smaller fonts. THAT is a problem of microsoft windows. Microsoft is the one saying "aha higher resolution, let me make the fonts smaller, I dont want the ease the strain on users eyes".

In firefox, you can set the minimum font (be sure to choose the overide web page font option).

You can also try linux - I have 1920x1600 on a 17" and its simply STUNNING. I've also had SXGA+ on a 14.1" and it looks awesome too.
In microsoft however - its a different matter.

 

That is the best part of having a larger screen alot less scrolling

 

Regarding the dark area in the corner. My E1705 has these in both bottom corners of the screen. I had posted in this forum about it and found it is normal for LG Phillips LCD panels. Turns out mine is a LG Phillips panel. Luckily the taskbar hides the anomoly and isn't bothering me much (yet). I just got my notebook 3 days ago. I bought the 3 year warranty an now am sure glad I did.