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    i6000d WSXGA vs. WUXGA Please HELP!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by benjeezy, May 20, 2005.

  1. benjeezy

    benjeezy Newbie

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    Hello everyone, I was about to order a dell i6000d yesterday but I did not know what display to choose. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Is one better than the other? thanks a lot for your help.
     
  2. gmoneyphatstyle

    gmoneyphatstyle Notebook Deity

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    The difference is the number of individual pixels on the screen. Super extended graphics array SXGA contains 1280 x 1024 or 1.3 million pixels on the screen. Ultra extended graphics array UXGA contains 1600 x 1200 or 1.9 million pixels on the screen. Wide screens like WXGA and WUGA contain more than thier XGA and UGA counter parts because they have more columns. The advantage of a higher resolution like UGA is that pictures look sharper, if your into photography, games, graphics design, this is a good thing. The dissadvantage is that because the individual pixels are smaller with higher resolutions fonts and icons get a lot smaller. This makes the higher resolution unhelpfull for websurfing, emailing, wordprocessing. If you have a UXGA or if you find SXGA too small you can use the settings in windows to make the fonts larger. But generally higher resolutions cost more. Most buissness computers wome with XGA or SXGA because buissness people do mostly wordprocessing and prefer larger easier to read fonts.