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    W520 screen dimensions

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by sam008, Jul 27, 2011.

  1. sam008

    sam008 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Can someone provide me the exact screen dimensions for the W520? I need to buy a privacy screen that would fit it well. I can't find the screen dimensions (not the bezel or the frame) anywhere on Lenovo's website

    Thanks
     
    sam008, Jul 27, 2011
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  2. Thors.Hammer

    Thors.Hammer Notebook Enthusiast

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    Do you need it the second you receive the machine? If not, why not just wait until you get it and measure it yourself? Then you will know the exact measurements and have confidence in them.
     
    Thors.Hammer, Jul 27, 2011
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  3. kirayamato26

    kirayamato26 Notebook Deity

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    I'm pretty sure it is the same as any other 15.6" screen.

    Let's do some simple trig:

    Since the screen ratio is 16:9, that would mean that (the bottom triangle when splitting the screen in half diagonally, we are going to use the bottom left hand angle of the triangle) the opposite side is 9, and the adjacent side is 16. Using tangent inverse, we get that the angle is roughly 29.36 degrees. Since the hypotenuse is 15.6", we do 15.6cos(29.36) to get the horizontal side's length, which is about 13.59657838", which I'm pretty sure you can just round off to 13.6". Similarly, we do 15.6sin(29.36) to get the vertical side's length, which is about 7.648075338", which can probably be rounded to 7.65".
     
    kirayamato26, Jul 27, 2011
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  4. antskip

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    The screen is 15 9/16" diagonal, 13 3/4" horizontal, 7 3/4" vertical.
     
    antskip, Jul 27, 2011
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  5. kirayamato26

    kirayamato26 Notebook Deity

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    Theoretical math was close enough. :p
    Yay math~
     
    kirayamato26, Jul 27, 2011
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  6. sam008

    sam008 Notebook Enthusiast

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    you guys are brilliant!
    Thank you!
     
    sam008, Jul 27, 2011
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  7. Colonel O'Neill

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    LOL And I was going to do it with algebra and Pythagoras. XD
     
    Colonel O'Neill, Jul 27, 2011
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  8. kirayamato26

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    Trig simplifies a lot of things. :p
     
    kirayamato26, Jul 27, 2011
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    BrendaEM Notebook Consultant

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    Do you know what works better than trig in this case --waiting to get the computer, so that you know exactly how big the screen is : P

    Trig doesn't tell you what they did with the bezel.
     
    BrendaEM, Jul 27, 2011
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  10. kirayamato26

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    The TS wanted to know about the screen, not the bezel.
     
    kirayamato26, Jul 27, 2011
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  11. MidnightSun

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    Privacy screens don't cover the bezel, just the screen area, which should be the same for all 15.6" laptops.
     
    MidnightSun, Jul 27, 2011
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