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    Low Reflection Glossy Screens?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Tailic, May 4, 2007.

  1. Tailic

    Tailic Notebook Deity

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    After taking a trip down to bestbuy and looking at HP's nice dv line of notebooks it makes me wonder at the crazy glare their glossed up LCD screens. The build seems nice along with the style but the reflections are just horrible, at least in that environment. The "tilting" trick didn't even seem to help.

    Anyways, after following the laptop industry for the last month its pretty apparent that glossy screens are becoming the norm, reflections or not. Except for high quality business notebooks of course (even some of those have questionable screens compared to desktop LCDs). It also has me wondering, do laptop screens really lack that much to where they need to add layers of gloss to make up to either the contrast or brightness? Because its really rare to even find a glossy desktop LCD and if you ask me, the desktop LCDs should be glossed up instead.

    Heres my main question now, is there any particular brand or model that offers a relatively low reflection on glossy LCD screens? Theres brands of notebooks that aren't being shown at retail stores like Asus, Sager, and Dell so its kinda hard to really check them out(I'm particularly interested in seeing a Asus laptop up and close since their barebones can be found pretty easy and cheap).

    Also can someone list any barebones or ODM retailers for the US? I've been recently looking at PowerNotebooks.com and find it interesting that they can sell notebooks without a OS installed.

    Sorry for any ranting at the beginning, this would be my first laptop I would buy and I really don't want to be sending it back wasting money on restocking just because of reflections. Right now I'm in the stage of getting funds together so its really not the time for a "What laptop I should buy thread" :)
     
    Tailic, May 4, 2007
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  2. Rahul

    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    Yes there are some glossy screens that have less reflection and glare but sorry I don't know which ones.
    One problem with these stores like Best Buy is all of the overhead lighting they have, you'll notice those reflections noticablely less in your home for instance.
     
    Rahul, May 4, 2007
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