Question(s) on displays

Can you name a display which is better than a Truelife UltraSharp display of a Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook? Here, on NBR, I was told that they were no really superior to any other glossy displays from other brands, but...

I was reading a review of NP9850 on Notebookcheck. In display section regarding display brightness they state:

Numbers don't really say much for me and I decided to see if Notebookcheck has the same data for a display of Inspiron for comparison. Surprisingly, it said:

And that's for a two (or more) year old office machine against top-notch gaming rig from Sager?

Or maybe that's a misleading info?

 

The best notebook display on larger notebooks is the ThinkPad IPS FlexView displays. They were last offered on the 15" T60 in SXGA+ and UXGA resolution. The Asus V6Va had a glossy version of this display. The IPS displays have a high contrast ratio and wide viewing angles, which is what makes them good. I hear the Dell RGB-LED display is very nice though doesn't offer the viewing angles of the IPS.

 

The Sager screen you mentioned has good contrast but poor brightness. Still good enough for indoors with not much light.

Good displays are the RGB LEDs used by Dell and HP for example.
Sony VAIO FW double lamp 1080p screen is good.
Macbook Pros have good screens.

 

Thanks.

So frustrating. Sofisticated engineering solution can be brought to its knees by a plain lamp...

 

Just my own opinion here, but I've seen the MBP displays and I my opinion they were nothing special. The new unibodys are glossy except the optional matte on the 17". I would think an engineer wouldn't take to a glossy screen.

I think brightness is overrated as a criteria for a quality screen. Look at the new super bright LEDs. Sure they're bright, which isn't bad, but they're often washed out at higher brightness. Even my own 14" R60 was plenty bright on the upper settings, but the contrast ratio was 2:1 and the viewing angles about 3°.

If you don't mind something a bit on the heavy side, the Lenovo W700 with the WUXGA screen could would as well.

 

I can understand that someone would not like them if they don't like glossy but when objectively measured for contrast, brightness and black levels Macbook Pro screens belong to the highest quality TN panels in the market.

 

How does one objectively measure those? I only know what I saw and what I saw wasn't significantly better than anything else I've seen. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

 

With a colorimeter.

By the way the gamut on the new MBPs is also considerably higher than most laptop screens.