Dell's TrueLife's reflectiveness

I want to buy a Dell xps M1530 and have the option between these two monitors:
15,4-inch UltraSharp WSXGA+ (1.680 x 1.050) TFT
or
15,4-inch WXGA+ (1.440 x 900) TrueLife

And ive heard about the reflectiveness of true life which im worried about.
Are they both equal reflective or one less then the other?

 

I would personally go for the higher res, more screen space is always nice! I have a 17" truelife m6300.. and it's pretty reflective. If i had the chance to reorder mine, i would not have chosen the truelife... it also picks up a good amount of dust, I find my self carrying around a microfiber cloth and having to wipe it daily... I've compared my notebook side to side with another m6300 without truelife... the one without truelife was alot easier to work with on the long run.

 

Well that sucks because the one dell i want only comes with an true life monitor. Are the latest dell's xps m1530 true life monitors still reflective as they were couple years ago or no difference?

 

I think all resolutions on the 1530 are glossy. And I'd go for the 1440 if you don't need the extra real estate of 1680. Simply because you have much better chance of getting the LG screen as opposed to the grainy Samsung.

 

Lets put it this way, i can see me, typing this very clearly.
with the brightness all the way down in a bright room its mirror like.
with the brightness all the way up its like a ghost image of myself

 

well said.

 

The image on your VostroTM laptop’s display is made of tiny dots called pixels. A 1280x800 display has 1280 horizontal pixels on 800 lines. The more pixels you have, the higher the resolution.

WXGA+, WSXGA+ and WUXGA displays offer higher resolution than WXGA to increase the amount of viewable content. This means you can:

* Work with multiple open applications on your desktop simultaneously
* Easily navigate large spreadsheets with multiple rows and columns of content
* Get more out of resolution-intensive digital content creation or data visualization applications
* Enjoy crisper reproduction of images and video and a better overall viewing experience

A TrueLife TM display has higher contrast ratio than the same display with an anti-glare coating. TrueLifeTM technology delivers darker blacks and colors that pop for vivid graphics and lifelike video.

Anti-Glare technology is designed to reduce the intensity of reflected light from the surrounding environment, making it ideal for typical office settings as well as for the varying lighting conditions in environments such as customer sites and airports.

http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/lea...een_vostro&~lt=popup&~series=vostro&~tab=othe

I was going through www.dell.co.in Vostro section ( http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/pro...stronb_1510?c=in&cs=inbsd1&l=en&s=bsd)..which says in Config that Antiglare but when go into the actual Customization page ( http://dellstoreroa02.sg.dell.com/public/cart/configurator.jsp?prd_id=42896&sr_no=1)
it mentioned Truelife Tm ..and in that Help section near the Display file i found this ... !!

 

Dell's "TrueLife" is just dell's way of saying that it's a glossy screen as opposed to matte. Every major manufacturer has a different name for it. But they're all the same thing. Glossy screens have better colors and they are better for multimedia stuff, but it can be hard to use in bright lighting.

Matte screens aren't as vibrant, but they don't have the mirror-like finish that glossy screens have. It makes matte MUCH easier to use in bright or harsh lighting conditions. Like an office of outdoors.

It's all a trade off, what's most important to YOU?