vostro 1500 screen, crappy?

I have the basic 1280x800 screen (non truelife) and it looks like shiit! compared to my 1680x1050 e207wfp desktop screen this thing looks so faded! and before you tell me to go to control panel and change my setting, i already tried! wt should i do, i really dont want that shiny truelife crap!

 

Desktop LCDs are generally much better than laptop LCDs, so this isn't a very fair comparison. Can you compare it to other laptop displays? Also be sure the brightness is on max (press Fn-Uparrow repeatedly).

 

Well i tested it against my friends truelife on his gateway (same res) his color looked better, but mine was brighter, and sharper!

 

Hmmm you could try color calibration, but I'm not sure how to do that in Vista... maybe the nVidia drivers have some settings to play with?

 

yeh, already tried those it just looks soo faded! no real color!!

 

If you don't like it, return it. Why keep something you're not satisfied with?

 

True, but thats the only non shiny one they offer! im dissapointed Dell!!

 

what model is it, have you tried calibrating it yet??

 

Lol, I'm partially color blind so color calibrating is slightly hard, but ik the difference between clean color and no color!

 

I recently purchased WXGA and WXGA+ TrueLife. The latter had way to much blue when I first powered it up. Colors did look somewhat washed out. Calibration though made a lot of difference. WXGA on the other hang, had much better colors straight out of the box, nevertheless, I did calibrated it too and once again, the difference was very noticeable. I use Spyder2express colorimeter and it does pretty good job. I have 4 other LCDs in the house so I figured it was worth $70 investment... and frankly, I never regretted buying it

 

As for desktop vs laptop lcd panels I am not so sure about that anymore... aside from light bleed (which I think comes from keeping the panel so thin) I have seen many laptop screens in stores rivaling the desktop counterparts...