is the LED really that much brighter?

My mom just got an Inspiron 1525 from Dell and I put it side by side with mine and honestly, I could hardly even tell a difference. My brightness is at 100%. Am I missing something or is the LED brightness really overrated?

 

I dont know but at 100% my LED is bright as heck. depending on the surroundings it hurts my eyes sometimes!

 

Depends on the manufacturer.

First m1330 with Samsung screen was very bright.

Second m1330 with Toshiba screen was a bit dimmer than Samsung but still brighter than my HP dv2000 with an lcd screen.

Currently trying to get a Samsung as replacement in my m1330. Not an easy task.

 

As NOS said the Samsung LED for m1330 is the brightest. We used to have two of those. After one replacement, we have one Samsung and one Toshiba, and Toshiba is a bit dimmer, but it has great colors compared to Samsung (especially the blue tones).

Compared to CCFL LCDs, the LED LCDs are much brighter, more power efficient, lighter and less bulky for sure!

 

Do you find the Toshiba to be a little grainy especially on white backgrounds such as Google? The Samsung seemed to have an overall smoother look. Which do you prefer between the Toshiba and Samsung?

Thanks

 

Send me your LED laptop and I can measure the luminance at my work using one of the photometers.

 

Yes, the Toshiba is a "bit" grainier compared to Samsung on white backgrounds. However, it is negligible when compared to CMO screens.

I definitely prefer Samsung over Toshiba. It's a personal choice though

 

My LED screen is an LG and it is very bright. I usually keep it at about half the brightness.

 

That's comparing apples and oranges. I had an HP DV2000, and my current LG CCFL on m1330 is brighter than that also.

 

I have an old LG Flatron LCD screen, and it looks completely gray compared to the M1330 LED. On the other hand it shows colors about a billion times better. The LED screen, bright as it may be, truly sucks at color reproduction.

Right now I'm in my room, which isn't too well lit, so I'm running at 70~% brightness, any higher makes me squint because it's too bright. When daylight is on through the windows I'll usually run 100%, I can see the screen clearly with the afternoon sun shining right at it, the only problem is that it makes all the dust on the screen clearly visible .

I got the Samsung one.

 

my studio looks better in terms of colour and brightness then my 3 year old 55 inch rear projection tv

 

I for one regret not getting the LED screen. I just looked at my screen wondering why it wasn't on max brightness, tried to turn it up, and it was already on max

Ah well, I chose power over screen and i stand by that decision.

 

From my own brief experience with the m1530 LED screen I think that the LED screen was WAY too bright... really uncomfortably bright, it had great contrast and so on but I didn't feel comfortable using it at all so I turned the brightness down a notch which made it way too dark. This in addition to other problems I've had with that screen made me chose not to get another LED screen.

 

Possibly the LED screen you where using was defective since the LED screens have 15 individual steps of brightness whereas the old-school CCFL LCD screens only have 7...

Difference between LED & older CCFL LCD are night & day...

 

^ somms the lcd specialist!

 

Possibly... in addition to this the screen I had also had the absolute worst case of backlight bleeding I've ever seen on a laptop, the main reason why I returned it.

 

with my experience with both samsung and LG screens on a Thinkpad T400, I saw that the LG screen was a little whiter than the samsung screen. Both were just plain "bright". Didn't really show me great sharpness. The screens weren't gorgeous...they were merely...BRIGHT.

When I look at my 3 year old Dell 510m's 15" 1024x768 screen I can see whites being white, screen being quite sharp ( though grany ). It was much better than the WXGA+ LED backlit screen on the T400.

To each his own. I dont think the LEDs have such a big advantage over the regular screens...

 

You can get pretty much any amount of brightness with either technology. If you want to see a CCFL-backlit screen that's crazy bright, the Sony FZ (discontinued) with the Xbrite-HiColor option was like that. (At least I'm pretty sure it used CCFL... lol.) The problem is it sucks a lot of battery juice.

LED-backlit screens use less power for the same amount of brightness. They also have other advantages, like being more evenly-lit, whiter (rather than yellow-tinted or something), and they can make the lid thinner, reducing the laptop's weight a little bit. If all you care about is raw brightness, you don't really need LED-backlighting.

Still, if you got an LED-backlit screen and it's not plenty bright at its maximum setting... that's a bit disappointing.

 

You are not the only one. I have compared Macbook Air and Dell XPS M1330 with my Dell XPS M1530, and I hardly see the different. I am very surprised myself too. I thought LED suppose to be brighter.

 

That's what I thought about my LED screen, it was really bright and nothing else...

 

somms, u know any free software for measuring lcd screen luminess?
+rep waiting for ya.

 

about the 15 steps of brightness with an LED screen is that definite as i have the LGD0135 17" screen and 15 levels of brightness and the screen is definitely bright enough for me, but not really uncomfortably so. Could it just be a Vista preference for the adjustment levels to go from 7 to 15?

best
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somms - thank you.
exactly 15 steps, now I'm 100% sure I have LG Philips LED SCREEN!
by the way I use mine on step/level 2 and it is enough for me!
For LCD too bright - you can problem (or i have) only in one case!when I'm under direct light from naked lamp
http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/consumer/images/incandescent_lamp.gif

 

People also aren't mentioning the fact that LED's should keep their brightness levels better as even 3 year old CCFL screens are dimmer and yellower than brand new. I also find LED screens to calibrate quite nicely. The stock color calibrations on these screens are crap as it's all skewed towards making the screen appear "brighter" rather than color accuracy. BTW even my vaunted MBP screen was much better after a round on my spyderpro3 colorimeter