8510p/w light leakage

Hey,

The few of your that have the 8510w/p, could you post some pictures of your light leakage? Or link me to them if you have posted them?

I understand that the light leakage comes from the sides of the notebooks and I was just curious to see what it looked like.

Thanks
-Mark

 

Im at work now, but i'll try to take some pictures and post when i get home in a few hours. FWIW, I am much less bothered by it than the first day i got it. It's really not that bad, i'm just a bit of a perfectionist.

 

Yay, another perfectionist!

I am bad at acronyms, what does FWIW mean?

Thanks for posting pictures when you do in advance as well! I appreciate it!

-Mark

 

Another perfectionist here also...The laptop has a lil flex near the edge to the right of the touchpad. It only exhibits itself if you have your palm right on it. In case your learning on it or something. When typing it has no flex and is solid.

All my laptops have light leakage. You can't see it unless you are viewering the screen at some extremem angle you would never use it at anyhow. You shouldn't worry about this in the slightest.

 

is the display good enough for photo editing? obviously, an external monitor is ideal, and that's what i'll use when i have the option. but i don't want the machine if the display is too far off even after calibration (colors, brightness...). thanks

fwiw = for what its worth

 

I haven't calibrated my lcd yet so it has a slightly bluish hue to it in comparision to my calibrated external LCD.

For now I am using the nVidia tools to adjust the color to get it to match but I will be buying Huey calibrator in the near future unless there is a better way to do it. So far me using a shareware program hasn't turned out as well.

 

Hmm...I have some flex above the DVD drive but nothing near the right edge of the touchpad.

I actually took some pictures of the leakage when I first got the machine home (at like 2am...) but they're sitting on a camera at home. I'll see if I can find them.

Lefty--I plan on calibrating my screen after I finish my term paper, I'll let you know how it goes. Colours seem very good to me right now though (pre calib).

 

Thanks everyone. I truly appreciate all the input and feedback.

Build quality wise, it should be leaps ahead of my Inspiron 6000, which creaks like crazy, gets ripples in the screen when you push behind it, and the case is actually cracking!

I look forward to seeing some pictures!

 

How do you calibrate your screen?

 

The best way to calibrate is with an LCD monitor calibrator like the Pantone Huey or the Colorvision Spyder2. They cost about $100 but are well worth it if you do photo editing.

Pantone Huey
Colorvision Spyder2

 

I'll be using Spyder myself.

 

those are good and another one is:
eye-one from X-Rite

 

The light leakage strongly depends on the display res i think. Afaik the smaller resolution panels dont really have probs with that. Mostly the WUXGA one, which i think is only available on the w.

If you look at the pics that are taken from the left/right angles in my review (linked in sig) there you see a little light leakage from the bottom of the display.
Its more noticable on bad viewving angles actually, looking straight at the screen its minor. On a not so dark background you wouldnt notice much of it either.

 

Thanks phoenixx, I have seen your pics before and they don't look so bad.

I appreciate the link.

 

I was going to buy the Huey Pro. Is this one better?

 

Here are a few pictures i took really quick. As you can see, its much more noticeable when you look from an angle looking down at the screen. As for the leakage looking straight on, its not bad at all. However, i would say that the leakage looks slightly worse in person than in these pictures (i'm not a photographer by any stretch).

 

Thanks for the pics! That doesn't look too bad at all IMHO. Light leakage dead on is all I worry about. I never look at LCDs at weird angles.