1920x1200 on 15.4 screen-

Too small or ok for gaming?

Just ordered an NP9662 and just wondering if going for the uwxga is worth it--

 

great for gaming, too small for everything else.

 

It's great for graphics design and CAD applications, so you can have a lot of workspace. Gaming is great as well, if your graphics card can power games on such a high resolution. Most text-based applications will be too small, and you'll likely have to adjust the DPI setting. Although, if you like small text, it would be fine.

 

i was wondering the same thing

but overall does it worth the 175 bucks?

 

How's your eyes? I am 20/30 and still having a hard time looking at those small numbers/icons in Solidwork under 17" WUXGA.

 

I have no trouble using my screen at all, I've actually zoomed out on many of web pages that I use, to make the text smaller.

 

I personally like the 1920x1200 on a 17" screen, but I think it would be overkill on a 15", although saying that, I still have a 1600x1200 15" dell from 1999...(and yes, it still works beautifully)

 

Not worth it if gaming is your main priority. The 260M isn't built to push 1200p gaming, and you'll be needing to turn the res down.

 

20/20 as far as I know- I've seen 1920x1200 on a 17" and I thought that was ok- 15.4 might be pushing it.

BTW, this laptop's sole raison d'etre is for gaming. I have laptops for other things, like eeeww....work--

 

Thanks-- This is the answer I was looking for. Hopefully, I won't have to go below 1680x1050 rez. I hate the blurry image of non-native rez.

You'd think by this time we can actually have a decent card that can drive 1920x1200 without going SLI/dual card config in an affordable package.

 

My friend has the screen on his xps m1530, and lets just say I am jealous and regretting not getting it earlier. The extra screen space is totally worth it and he has glasses and he doesn't really have trouble reading anything off of it (i have normal vision and the text is fine, DPI can be turned up). And for non-native rez gaming, since there are sooo many pixels, even 1280x800 looks pretty nice and a lot clearer than it does in mine (for gaming).

 

I love mine.

 

Can the GTX260 handle the rez for games, such as Crysis or UT3?

 

UT3 is not a problem maxed at 1200p, but Crysis will require reduced settings.

To be honest, I regret not going with the WUXGA screen, but it wasn't in my budget at the time. On launch day, the M860TU, with 2GB RAM and just the P8600 cost me $1900, but now you can deck one out for under $2k.

If you want it, I say go go it.

 

Hmmm... Sure is tempting- well i'll wait til a rep from xoticpc calls me. Then ill ask to modify the order to the uxwga.

Thx!

 

Amen to that!