Question About Default 1920 x 1080

I have a question about the 1920 x 1080 native resolution of the screens on these notebooks...

Maybe I'm missing something....why run at that resolution when it would make the desktop icons and everything so small? Seems like 1600 resolution would be sufficient for gaming as well while getting much better frame rates. Even doing things at 1920 resolution seems overkill for web browsing as well.

Does 1600 resolution look any good on a native 1920 x 1080 native screen? I'm asking because i'm trying to decide between a 15 inch and 17 inch screen notebook.

 

We have quite a few customes that run their laptops @ 1600x900 and it looks just fine. It doesn't have nearly the "non-native" issues as older LCD's did.

 

The only thing I can offer is I have a native 1440x900 resolution. I used to play StarCraft II at 1280x800 on it but after cleaning the inside, I upted my ingame res to 1440x900, that 160x100 increase in res made the game so much prettier. You're not going to find anything less than 1080p on top of the line Clevo models, however, there may be a way to change the desktop resolution compared to the actual resolution setting, that, or just use large icons.

Aother note, I'm used to a 1440x900 desktop, when setting up my sister's laptop which is 1363x768 or something weird, can't remember. Anyway, even though it is barely a smaller resolution, I find that everything is way too big for me on the screen vs my laptop (with both laptops on normal icon size settings).

 

You end up getting used to the 1920x1080 once you use it. I can't speak for others, but the extra screen real estate lets me open a browser window for half the screen and run email/video/whatever in the other half and not have anything super squashed.

If you're worried about performance, you can always bump the resolution to some other 16x9 resolution and it will look pretty decent. Unlike on big TV's where you do this, a 15" screen has tiny pixels (comparatively) so distortion is less of an issue at non-native resolutions as long as you keep the same aspect ratio.

 

when i did the bf3 alpha i set my screen to 1600x900, and just disabled the scaling, so it was native, but it had a small black border. it works out well like that, and its way better than using scaling. oh and the scaling is actually very good on these screens. its not fuzzy like my dell's was.

 

So 1920x1080 resolution=1080p? I've been kind of confused on this?

 

you wouldn't be the first to be confused resolution naming. the next "big" resolution is 4k, which is measured horizontally instead of vertically. The resolution will be 4096x2304. so hopefully by then we will have better scaling for the operating systems, like the scaling used in android, or else we will have really tiny icons.

 

anything below 1080p is blurred, based on my exp with the laptop. so you just have to get used to the 1080p in a 15" screen.

 

I used to have a Gateway 15.4 and it only had 800p screen, I thought it was already fine having that kind of screen space. I bought a D900F that thing had 1200p screen. Watching 1080p movies was awesome. There was a lot of space for multitasking. You wont regret having that much space.

 

Some things might appear small, but you can always up the DPI of your fonts and icons.

 

I came in to add this. You get nice big icons but keep the high resolution. Makes it look nicer IMO.

 

on Windows 7, Right Click\Screen Resolution then look for "Make text and other items larger or smaller"

It will help with the OS, but not games, unfortunately.

 

Yes but in games I tend not to notice when it is lower resolution as much.

Then again I usually stick with the native res and if I don't, it is played in windowed mode. This causes the image to still look sharp.

 

I'd pitch in as well and say that the increased real estate is worth the smaller text. Unless you don't multitask often - then just use an ipad.

 

changing DPI to 125% helps out when running 1920

 

My iPad will have a seat along side my laptop running AirDisplay.

 

A quick note on this: if you Google for "DPI calculator," you can punch in your resolution and the size of your screen (diagonal) to figure out what your DPI should be set to (so the DPI of the OS matches the physical DPI of the screen).

For example, a 15" display at 1920x1080 has a DPI of ~147, so you'd want to set your OS DPI to 153% (using the custom text size). This makes your text look nice, but the OS DPI scaling is not very good in a lot of applications, so it has some drawbacks....

 

Yes 1080p = 1920x1080.