Who Offers The Best LCD Screen for Laptops?

I need help finding who offers the best quality HD LCD screens. I had my eyes on Sony laptops FW with the 16.4" widescreen with XBRITE-FullHD™ LCD technology (1920x1080), but they are very limited with other customized components they offer. For instance, their blu-ray models come with a lower quality screen.

Any suggestions where to look for best HD LCD screens?

Alexander

 

Unless you do photos, you don't really need a great screen. Either way, pretty much all screens nowadays are poor quality 6-bit TN panels (in comparison to desktop panels), so the variation on image quality isn't much. The best LCD on a mainstream or bigger sized notebook would be the Dell Precision M6400 and HP Elitebook 8730W with their 8-bit WUXGA RGBLED screen. Next would be the 6-bit WUXGA RGBLED Apple MBP 17, Lenovo W700/ds, Dell Precision M4400, Dell Studio XPS 16, and Apple MBP 15.

 

Firstly, how do **you** define 'quality'?

 

Best screen ever on a mainstream notebook is the T60 UXGA FlexView. It offers boatloads of contrast and wide viewing angles, which are the components that define a good screen. There are many things that will benefit from a good screen, not just Photoshop. Ever watch a movie and see the colors invert when turning off center?

Unfortunately, no one's making anything like the FlexViews on a mainstream notebook right now. If you want something similar you'll need to get a tablet like the X200t with the AFFS screen, but those probably aren't very conducive to Blu-ray.

 

Defining quality screens: For me, the primary criteria is egronomics. It should cause minimal strain on the eyes. The websites referrenced below suggest the following:

1. to raise the refresh rate above 60 Hz. which reduces the flickering effect
2. resolution of 1280x1024 pixels or higher
3. screen size 17 inch or bigger
4. aspect ratio of 4:3 for home, and 15:9 or 16:10 for office
5. increase default font sizes
6. TFT screens (they use active LCD displays)

Referrences:
a) http://www.pickyguide.com/computers_and_software/computer_monitors_guide.html
b) http://www.ergonomics-information.com/monitors-eye-strain.htm

These articles may be outdated by newer technology, so any additional input and recommendation of other features and actual laptop models would be appreciated.

Thank you for the great input thus far.

 

your #5 has nothing to do with screen construction and everything to do with operating system support.

Specifying an overall resolution and size without, in advance, specifying the dpi, color resolution, and response rate (which is different from refresh rate) is a cart before the horse problem.

Blindly specifying a refresh rate without reference to response rate is silly.

You have no mention of being able to color correct the display output to compensate for both source material and viewing conditions. True, this is most often taken care of at the OS level, but the display itself must be correctable.

Deliberately specifying aspect ratio without specifying content and viewing conditions is also silly.

TFT technology is outdated by at least 5 years.

 

hp elitebook 8730p with the dreamcolor screen.

but it's not that you need that. it just would be the best quality

 

1. All mainstream sized notebooks should be able to do 60+Hz
2. All mainstream sized notebooks can do WXGA resolution or above
3. This guide is written for desktops
4. This doesn't exist any more, there are only 16:9 and a few older 16:10
5. This is Windows (OS or software controlled and not a factor)
6. All current LCDs are TFTs, will change with OLED eventually