NC8430 Screen Quality

Hi NC8430 Owners:

I have just received NW8440 as a replacement for failing NC8230 I owned for more than one year. One of the main problems I had with the older unit was the quality of screan. It was advertised as "Wide Viewing Angle". But it was really not that wide. It also had "silk screen effect" too. I am now very dissapointed to find out the new unit has a similary narrow viewing angle screen again. Wide or narrow is a relative concept, I know. Could you conment how is your screen? Oct. 4 review article on the Home Page of the Notebook Review covers the NC8430. I bet you read it. You can see some picks of good looking screen there. Mine is no where close to it. To me mine looks kind of dim though it's pluged in and with hightest brighteness. Does yours look like the one on the review? Also the reviewer coments there that his screen is made by LG. How can I find who made mine? Thank you.

Michaelmorio

 

Well, I'm the guy that reviewed the nc8430...so I'd guess that my screen looks like the review model! If it seems little too dim, turn off the Ambient Light Sensor (press Fn+F10) then adjust the brightness.

Anyway, the procedure for getting the LCD info is as follows (copied from another thread):

Mine was LPL...LG monitor!

 

My nw8240 has also a LG screen (LPL). It's good.

 

What is silk screen?

 

I think the OP was referring to either uneven coloring on the display, or ripples that appear on the display when you press/touch it. Probably uneven coloring.

 

Thanks.............................

 

I've been 100%+ satisfied with the screen on my nc8430. It's sharper than either my BenQ 17" external monitor or my Dell XPS screen (it's brighter then the one in my dell too).

The horizontal viewing angle is excellent, I have to lean so far over to notice any quality loss that the image looks squished anyway.

Vertical viewing angle isn't great, but again, it's better than my dell and certainly one of the better among laptops I've seen in person with higher than XGA resolution (I have th 1680x1050 screen).

 

Exactly how I feel...what screen do you have? LG?

 

How would i go about checking that? Device manager just lists it as "Default Monitor"

 

perhaps the "silk screen effect" has something to do with the graininess issue found in the asus notebooks with the x1600....

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=66204

 

Go to the Device Manager "Plug and Play Monitor"...if the string has LPL than it is an LG. I don't remember what the other codes are, but I'll dig around to see if I can find them.

 

I tried to check who made my monitor following night2004's instruction. What I got there is "Monitor LPL1279" under "Details" tab. There are a bunch of items on the drop-down menu such as Device instance Id, Hardware Ids, Compatible Ids, and etc. I also saw "PNP09FF" under "Compatible Ids". Then who makes it??????

With all best wishes,
Michaelmorio

 

Device Instance ID is what you're looking for, what does that say? If it has LPL then it is an LG screen.

 

Question is...what does our man Michaelmorio have?

 

Thank you night 2004 for a quick reply.

Then my monitor must be a LG one. But mine doesn’t give that 'wide angle view" your pics show on the review you posted on October 4. Brightness, with the ambient control turned off, though it's plugged in and with the highest setting, doesn't look as bright as other notebooks my co-workers are using in my office. Also, then monitor when it's viewed from about 40 degree from the center, gives considerable "green tint". Your notebook pic you are using under your nickname looks pretty "blue" You know what I am talking about here, don't you? The monitor pic with a white HP logo right next to a white cross. With the viewing angle of your pic, my monitor gives noticeable green shift. In short, when viewed with a small angle, it doesn't give correct colors. This is the main problem I had with a returned NC8230 too. Night 2004, I would appreciate if you can check this color shift issue. Thank you.

With all best wishes,
Michaelmorio

 

My device instance id says LPL1279 and then a bunch of other characters. I presume this means I have an LG.

 

Hi Beltonius

How dose your monitor look? Viewing angles, color acurracy and brightness???

With all best wishes,
Michaelmorio

 

I mentioned earlier:

I haven't really analyzed color accuracy, per se, but the whites seem whiter and it doesn't have the same overall blue tinge that my BenQ external does. Color seems to match my Dell XPS fairly well, for what it's worth. I always liked my Dell's display, my nc8430 seems to have slightly better viewing angles, and is undeniably brighter.

All-in-all, it's a wonderful, matte (which I prefer over glossy), WSXGA laptop display.

 

What about the WXGA 1200x800 screen option? Does anyone here have it and can comment on it? I realize the viewing angle may not be as good, but how about brightness?

 

My QDS (Quanta) screen looks good.

 

This is a bit of off-topic. But I noticed very noticeable difference in the screen quality (to be exact it is probably the difference of viedo cards) between my old NC8230 and new NW8440. I was comparing their viewing angles side-by-side. I was surpirsed at how smooth photos on NW8440 were! There wasn't color difference between them. NC8230 was much grainier. NW8440 was so smooth. I didn't really feel the former was grainy at all until I did this side-by-side comparison. I guess to some degree the difference is screen dependant.
My NW8440 came with ATI FireGL5200. What's the difference from X1600 in NC8430s?

With all best wishes,
Michaelmorio

 

I believe they are the same card, with different optimizations in the drivers. The FireGL is also ISV compliant for workstation applications, but the X1600 can use them as well. All that ISV thing means is that the drivers have been tested and known to work on these workstation apps...

Again though, most (if not all) of these apps would be fine on a X1600.

BTW, I haven't gotten a chance to look at the color thing...but I will when I can.

 

Hi nicht 2004

Thank you for your always-prompt comments. Greatly appreciated!

Michaelmorio