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    FW35V (FW390) 1600x900 Eco screens

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Kieran, Apr 20, 2009.

  1. Kieran

    Kieran Notebook Guru

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    Received my Vaio last week (FW35V/FW390) with the 1600x900 XBrite Eco LCD. Still painfully deciding whether to send the laptop back as I'm not liking the screen.

    Are there any hardware controls for the screen besides brightness [buttons Fn + F5/F6]? Or do you have to do everything within Catalyst Control Center?

    Compared to my 22" Samsung SyncMaster 226BW desktop LCD the difference between the two screens are night and day. The colours on the Sony XBrite Eco screen appear overblown (over exposed), untrue colours (definately not ideal for a web designer), tinted (toward either blue or purple), and fatiguing, even with spending a good deal of time customising the Catalyst settings.

    Am I expecting too much from a laptop screen, compared with a quality desktop LCD?

    Are any others using the same Eco screen, what do you think of it?

    Thanks
     
    Kieran, Apr 20, 2009
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  2. tianxia

    tianxia kitty!!!

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    you can try to use ccc or nvdia cp to tweak it. it's not really fair to compair a laptop screen to a desktop screen.
     
    tianxia, Apr 20, 2009
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