1080p Vaio Z Users

Hey,

I am looking into a 1080p 13" notebook. How are you using your 1080p screen? With 125 dpi scaling or without? How does it work with Lightroom/PS?

It would be great to hear from your experience in daily use (web browsing, office, facebook, e-mailing) and of the programms above.

Many thanks for your help!

 

I have a Z2 with a 1080p screen and I love it. It is, in my not-so-humble opinion, the absolute best screen out there right now in its size class. I had a chance to compare the 1080p with the 900p and preferred the sharper, tighter text. Keep in mind that I'm near sighted and the screen may be all wrong for somone else.

The good news is that whichever screen you get, it going to be far better than panel in any non-Z subcompact.

 

I can tell you one thing, the Vaio Z displays are the best you can get. The colour range they have is extremely broad, and their contrast is excellent!

Remember that you do need very good vision to be able to work on a FHD display if you're not sitting at typing distance.

 

guys, I am already owning a Z with 900p display. And now I am looking into a different 1080p laptop (ux31a), as the current Z is not offering to much bang for the buck (keyboard, sound, mousepad etc.) for my mind.

I just wanted to ask about any experience in the daily life use with this display to resolution size. and the only one that can talk about it are the 1080p-Z users.

So I really appreciate every comment about how programmes are working with upscaling to 125%. Or if this isn't needed. So please care to share.

Thanks again!

 

I've seen many people with the 125% upscaling enabled, and I never liked it. Most people seem to just not care, but in general everything gets really blurry (icons, interface elements, ...). Some applications refuse to scale too. It's a solution if you really can't read Windows interface text, but I'd stay away from the scaling in all other cases.

 

100% fontsize, no upscaling here. Love it, crisp and clear text and superb multitasking. Windows key + left and right are my most used keys I think, just love having pure overview of 2 screens at the same time.

Some colleagues do mention that they can never read from my screen because it is too small... But I have mapped the VAIO button to the windows magnifier so when they can't read things, 1 touch and boom ready to go

 

FWIW, I've labored over the decision between the Z's 1080p and 900p several times and picked the 900p each time, but have come to regret it in part after making the decision (hence, reconsidering the 1080p on 3 separate purchases.

Since discovering the "no-squint" add-on for the Firefox browser I will no longer flinch at getting a 1080p display - particularly in the Z, which has significantly greater color gamut and accuracy. nosquint is only a browser tool, but it lets you scale each web site individually and, instead of going in 25% increments it's infinitely variable.

 

It obviously depends on your eye sight. I use the 1080p at 100% DPI and have no regrets - I would never choose a resolution less than 1080p on a laptop now. Certainly, when you look at the screen over someone's shoulders (i.e. at a distance), it does become difficult to read, but when you're close to the screen, it's fine. Personally, when working on trains, I like the fact that other people can't easily read the documents I'm working on.

 

I love the 1080p screen at 100 DPI...I needed to get used to it at first but now that I am used to it, everything else is just blurry for me...

 

Thanks for making this post!


I do quite a bit of LR + PS work on the go and desired the best possible screen and I was hoping the Z had a good one.

 

Doesnt get much better than the Z for mobile PS work, quadcore power and fullhd adobeRGB display weighing less than 1.2 Kg

 

How's the mousepad? almost forgot to ask that

 

I've had both screens - 1080 and 900. I started with 1080 and it was just too small over time I had eye strain. I went to the 900 and it's perfect for me. I tried the DPI scaling but it screws up a lot of things and didn't like it.

1080p on a 13" is just too high for me. it's really personal choice.

 

I think the mousepad is pretty good, accurate and responsive. For browsing the net or simple tasks I just use the mousepad.

Only con is it's quite small, but if you up the mouse speed/sensitivity, it's not a real problem going from left to right in one or two sweeps.

 

108% on the 1080p is mostly pixel-perfect to the 900p for me. I still miss the contrast ratio of my 900p screen, but I've gotten used to the new 1080p swap in.

I'd also swapped out all the annoying, hard-coded-for-96-PPI Windows fonts such as Tahoma. I've used registry edits to swap default Menu/Windows/Shell fonts to either Lucida Sans or Segoe UI Semibold.

 

thanks for sharing, guys!