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    Screenshots? 1600x900 vs. 1920x1080

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Nuwwave, Aug 14, 2011.

  1. Nuwwave

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    Can anyone post some screenshot of these 2 resolutions for comparison? Like maybe your desktop or an IE window with text.
     
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    I think he may have meant an actual picture of the screen.
     
    TheDonkey, Aug 16, 2011
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    Where the GUI designers have not done their work well, the fonts and icons will be smaller and harder to read with a higher resolution monitor.

    But...

    If you open a word processing program or open a graphic image to full screen, the image will be clearer with a higher-resolution monitor.
     
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    Screen shots won't help you. They can give you an idea of how much real estate you'll have on each. But it won't give you any idea of how hard or easy it will be to read. You will only get a sense of the "DPI" of the screen your currently viewing it on when viewed at 100%.

    You'd have to view those images natively on the respected displays at 100% which would exactly fill each respective screen with it's respected captured image.

    Think of this in the extreme. If I viewed a screen capture of 1920x1080 from a laptop on to a 4" screen that was 1920x1080 would it be giving me a sense of how it looked on the laptop it was captured from? Or if I projected a 1920x1080 image captured from a laptop onto a $10,000 projector and stood 5 feet away to read it.

    Not to mention it won't reproduce the uniformity, black level, brightness, gloss/reflections, viewing angles, refresh rate, contrast or color accuracy with a screen capture.

    By the way my HTC phone as a DPI of a whopping 250 DPI. And it is VERY readable because many of the attributes are quite good.
     
    mswlogo, Aug 16, 2011
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