Problem backing me up from buying Qosmio X505

Well the Qosmio X505-Q888 has all the specs that I want in my desktop replacement. But the only 2 things im worried about it are:

1. That 1920x1080 resolution might make things look too small, im talking about fonts and icons considering Im goin to be using Microsoft Office a lot.

2. That the keyboard is too cramped considering its such a huge laptop because of the Multimedia Buttons.

Anybody have a problem like this with their Qosmio? Or should I just buy mine?

 

man i love how almost nobody ever answers to my threads

 

Well, I will answer it, but I don't own a Qosmio. I am considering one, along with a G73 and a couple of Sagers. Anyway, I have heard that the keyboard is cramped, which honestly doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me why they would do that if it's true. I think that maybe some gaming laptop manufacturers forget that people buy laptops for more than one purpose.

That said, however, you have to remember that this came from professional reviewers. Now I respect hardware and gaming reviewers a lot, but one thing I have found is that very often they overstate a lot of the issues they encounter because it is part of their job as a pro-reviewer to ferret out every single flaw in the products they test and write about. One thing that leads me to believe that the keyboard size may not be a major issue is that the reviews I read only paid about a one line tribute to that issue in the review and then reiterated it in the conclusion or final thoughts section. I suspect that this means that perhaps the keyboad is a little on the small side, but not necessarily something that a writer or someone doing a lot of typing on the machine couldn't live with. I could be wrong, and hopefully I am, because I am still considering a Qosmio myself, and I do a ton of writing on my laptops.

As for the 1080p issue, I have an old Dell XPS Gen2, and the native resolution on that beast is 1920 X 1200. I wear both reading glasses as well as "computer glasses" that I don't really need, but they help during gaming, and you know what? I have never had a problem with or without my so called computer glasses when reading anything I wrote in MSWord or reading the icons on my desktop. In Word, I use 12 font Times New Roman and I have the page showing at 150%, but that isn't to make the text larger. It is to make only one page appear on my screen at a time. I absolutely HATE the way Word puts 4 pages up on my screen and find it a real distraction. I know, TMI, but my point is I don't think you will have much of a problem with this, well at least I don't. Remember that this is an 18.4 inch screen not 15 inches. I think it is large enough to make your viewing all right with 1080p.

Oh and I am typing this out on a PC with an old Mitsibishi Diamond Pro monitor I never bothered to replace because it runs 1920 X 1440 really nice. It is a 20 inch monitor and I don't find any of te text too small even without my computer glasses. Why not go into Best Buy and test out a few laptops on your eyes that run 1080p? Make sure they are at least 17 inches and set to their native resolutions. If you feel any eye strain then you may need to rethink 1080p for a laptop.