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    T400 Display 1440*900

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by cannyhuang, Oct 9, 2008.

  1. cannyhuang

    cannyhuang Newbie

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    The characters displayed on my T400 looks blurry. It's especially easily sensible when reading text in thunderbird or a browser. The text doesn't look very solid. My display is a WXGA+ one, with a discrete graphics card. The OS is Windows VISTA. Surprisingly, I didn't get similar feelings when running the Ubuntu on the same laptop.

    Does anybody else have the same feeling? I am wondering if it's a vista configuration issue or something else.

    Thanks,
    Yan
     
    cannyhuang, Oct 9, 2008
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    joseluis Notebook Guru

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    joseluis, Oct 9, 2008
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  3. Ref

    Ref Notebook Geek

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    Vista has Cleartype (subpixel rendering) turned on by default - if you don't like it you can turn it off. But it is supposed to be easier to read on an LCD. It increases the effective resolution when viewing text.
     
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    rxblitzrx Notebook Evangelist

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    Download the Clear Type Tuner utility and increase the contrast ratio. The default value is kinda shoddy for me so I increased a little and it made a world of difference.
     
    rxblitzrx, Oct 9, 2008
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    mikec Notebook Evangelist

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    The ClearType Tuner Utility appears to only be XP compatible. Will it run properly in Vista 64 bit?
     
    mikec, Oct 9, 2008
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    Parijat Notebook Consultant

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    I use Tuneup Utilities 2008 to tune cleartype on vista.
     
    Parijat, Oct 9, 2008
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    mikec Notebook Evangelist

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    What settings do you use?
     
    mikec, Oct 9, 2008
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