Replace 15.4'' WSXGA+ with WUXGA?

I am not sure whether this is doable by customers. Forgive me if this is a silly question.

I just got my 15.4'' WSXGA+ and am curious about this possible replacement when WUXGA is available.

Best,
David

 

I am interested in the answer to this too. My wsxga+ is no longer working on my tp.

 

I just got a Dell D830 15.4" with WUXGA screen for work (by accident, i actually asked for WSXGA+). I am 29 and have perfect eye sight, and the screen is nearly unusable for extended period of time, and i really have to get up close to read the screen. If i set the dpi to 120, it helps a little, but for web work reasons i can't always set my computer to 120 and every time i change dpi setting i need to restart. i can't imagine anyone would want WUXGA on a 15.4" laptop.

 

thanks for sharing your experience.

 

its definitely possible. but the LCD panels are rather expensive and you have to make sure you get an lcd that has identical power and video cables.

Most importantly, you have to make sure that your video card will support the higher resolution.

 

I have a 15" 4:3 SXGA+ screen. I think the text at native resolution is just about right (still kind of small). Anything smaller I would need a magnifying glass. I cannot understand why anyone would want UXGA resolution on a 15".

 

Though I think they are in the minority, but some people love UXGA. Probably the best course of action if you want a WUXGA panel is to sell what you have now and get the one you want, but be careful what you wish for. I would suggest you look at one if you can.

 

I think we just get caught up in how much an upgrade it was from wxga to wsxga+, and think if that was good, more is better. Most everything's ok, but every now and then certain fonts come up that are unzoomable, "fine print" on certain sites, that might be tough on wuxga in 15.4". Leave that to 17" and up.


And yeah, at four hundred dollars or more, I think just springing for a whole new notebook is more cost efficient. Tempting, but wsxga+ is just right. That's still a whoole lot of real estate.

 

There's basically just one issue it comes down to: web sites.

If you work primarily with office applications, ie. reading PDFs, word processing, scientific applications, vector graphics, etc., WUXGA is great. People who say 'text is too small' for the above applications don't know what they're talking about - they are all scalable and text basically just becomes more readable as you increase the DPI. No one prefers blurry fonts.

The problem is web sites, as they are not scalable. However if you don't care about web sites looking !@$'d up, all the major browsers allow you to force increased font sizes. The problem is that the text is the ONLY thing you can scale, so a site designed for 800x600 is going to look really funny when the fonts are twice as big but they're being stuffed into a column which is still 500 pixels wide (an average article width, I'd guess).

So it comes down to what you look for on the web. For example, any kind of web developer is going to be extremely dissatisfied with 15.4" WUXGA. Academic researchers on the other hand might have no problem, as they don't care about breaking the web's design, they just care about making the text legible.

 

tdpop11, thanks for your well laid-out explanation. I am still waiting for my 4G RAM and have not put my T61 to real web development yet. I really like the WUXGA on my 17'' Inspiron 9300 in almost everything.