LCD LED vs. HD Screen - Help Me Choose

Advantages to the LCD LED screen? (Thinner? Less power? Brighter?)

I definitely think the 1280x800 was WAY to low of a resolution for me. I would like to maximize the space available, but haven't really seen a 1920x1200 on a 15" laptop before (I have pretty good eyes).

How much of a difference between the 1280x800 and the 1440x900 working space? Any advice?

 

1440x900 is awesome for the 15'' laptop, though I personally prefer WSXGA+ due to the expanded room. (I have good eyes too ). The HD 1920x1200 is VERY small and is a huge difference compared to WSXGA. Make no mistake it is viewable. However, you will have to always lean in up close in order to make sure you can read everything so your eyes will have to be about 1-1.5 feet from the monitor. You can read it from 2 feet, though it will be stressful on your eyes.

Personally I would prefer the HD 1920 just because of the screen resolution, but the fact of the matter is, the 1440 has LED, which really makes a world of a difference. The LED not only makes the 15'' laptop 100 grams lighter, but also allows much better brightness compared to others, which helps out a TON allow you to use your notebook without ANY glare even in direct sunlight, which is simply amazing. Everything looks crisp and the color reproduction as well as contrast is much better with the LED display. It also saves battery life.

The HD, what you can do is adjust the font size so its bigger in windows, but the fact is it does make it look kinda weird and it effectively "lowers" its resolution in an odd way that doesn't feel as natural.

My recommendation is to go with the LED 1440.

 

Thanks for the well thought out answer. Working outside is a main concern of mine, so this helped a lot.

 

I think the LED screen resolution would be sufficient for a 15" notebook. It would also be more thin. Hopefully soon they will offer full HD in LED to make the choice easier.

 

It depends. If you get the M1330 that is 13.3'', it will be thinner.

However if you get the 15.4'' M1530, it won't be thinner in form, but it will be lighter.

 

I played the same Blu-Ray movie (Jumpers) side by side with my fathers HDTV (Some crazy TV with lights in the back? Its stupid). I output with the HDMI cord to the TV, in which the TV agree'd with 1080p Resolution and looked pretty good. Then, when I sat the laptop beside the TV, you could see the difference. My laptops screen was just brighter, and more vibrant..my dad was pretty upset in agreeing my laptops display is better than his TV.

I love my LED, I love it so much, I have to buy a new thing of wipes every day because I wipe it off every hour (I wipe my whole laptop down to the T every night before sleeping)

I also can webcam at night with zero lighting except for the laptops screen, and I've used the laptop as a flashlight going downstairs a few times before.

 

Amazing, never would have thought the WXGA+ with LED would play a Blu Ray movie better than a 1080P TV. If I had known that, I might have gotten a Blu Ray burner...

 

Well, reading up on HD at CNET is what help me made my choice to settle with 720p.

Maybe other people would of seen it differently, but in the dark room looking at the two displays side by side, I just seen more color and life in the laptops display, my father agreed

This was playing a downloaded copy of the Blu-Ray Disc played with VLC Player.

 

Oh... so you don't have a Blu Ray drive. Downloaded copy... thats like... a lot of space.

 

My old desktop has 3 HDs hook up to it for over 1 TB of space, its always on 24/7 an acts as a file-server. I download every there and send it to my laptop on wireless network.

 

I would expect the laptop screen to be brighter than the TV especially with the LED. I think Samsung is coming out with an LED HDTV next year.

 

another vote for 1440x900 LED. 1920 is just too large of a res for 15". Only reason i'd get 1920 is if i was doing some sort of media editing or drawing on my computer.
between 1440 and 1680 is optimal for 15"

 

though OLEDs were the next big thing....

 

Were not going to see OLED technology in Dell laptops anytime soon. MAYBE for Calpella next year (doubtful), but definitely not for this upcoming refresh. Even LED has not yet been mainstream across all resolutions yet.

 

Maybe after 2012. The first reply pretty much sums up what I was gonna say. But it also depends on the panel. Even though most notebook screens are HD anyway (720p+), HDTVs still have the edge in terms of viewing angles, picture processing, blackness levels etc. I'm not actually sure, but I doubt Dell use IPS panels.

 

No clue what kind of panel Dell uses for their notebooks. Might be worth looking into. I never thought about IPS and non-IPS. Wow... good point to bring up. Any idea how to check?

 

Info on pros & cons for different types panels

What D.ell monitors use

No information concerning what the notebooks use though sorry. It might be on the spec sheet for each notebook. Dell isn't very forthcoming when it comes to detailed specifications.