My Vostro 1500 AUO vs replacement Vostro 1500 LG

Yup, I had my laptop replaced due to the screen... I know there's been a million of these threads here before, but I owe it to Dell to say how fantastic their customer service is. They sent an engineer (who was an awesome chap) but when he let me see the panel he was replacing it with, I already knew the answer to the problem was that it still remained.

The customer service rep ensured me that he will send a replacement out to me with the LG screen. Ensured.... I was a bit skeptical but he got it sent out no problem - to my new address too at University.

Got it yesterday, and I KNEW it was the better screen - I could even tell just on the Dell BIOS screen. And now that I have them side by side, this AOU screen appears to have its own quality issues. I'm also an illustrator though so the whole visual world is my life, so maybe I'm more prone to notice these things. It has like a very very fine version of the white noise you get on TV, and its also faint but its always present throughout, especially with whites. And the lighting of the screen is quite bizarre, it darkens around your field of vision from the centre, like how the screen is on Need For Speed: Most Wanted (thats the only similar thing I can think off, except the dark edges on that game are a far more exaggurated version of course).


HOWEVER, if you are content with your current screen, I don't think it's that important to replace. If you don't know what screen you have, then that's a sign that there's no need to replace yours as you're happy with your screen but you just want a better one anyway - feel free to obtain one at the expense of your time and effort but it's probably not worth it if it's not that much of an important element to you.


My one more gripe is the headphone port noise; and since I'm a heavy music producer aswell that's a bit annoying for me but I'm still very happy about this laptop - even if I didn't have the screen replaced. And apparently there's a future BIOS fix that emulates the functions of that RMClock noise fix? Good stuff then! I'm not going to bother the customer service fella with that because I'm perfect now I got the replacement screen (although I mentioned it to him in the initial emails but we both agreed that there's no proper known permanant solution).


Thanks again to Dell customer service! Just gotta transfer my stuff over and all's good. After I format the new laptop of course

(Also has anyone noticed they use a different keyboard now?)

 

Actually the Vostro doesn't get the BIOS updates, latest one I could find is the A00 even though my system came preloaded with the A01.

 

I estimate though that there will be some BIOS updates at some point at least? Eventhough my case is like yours - the site only has A00 eventhough both of these have A01.

 

i am also waiting for the bios fix =/ how long do they want to keep us waiting.