Vista Display Quality Question

Every time I go to the store to check out laptops I walk away thinking did Microsoft do something to degrade display engine for Vista. Image quality, be it text, graphics or images, just doesn't appear to be as good as it is in Windows XP.

Yesterday I saw a bunch of machines from Lenovo, HP, and Toshiba running Vista and one Lenovo R61i running Windows XP. The R61i looked much better but I am not sure as to why.

I then wandered over to the iBooks and thought how do they get their Imacs with Intel Integrated graphics to look so much better than Vista machines with dedicated graphics cards?

What's up here? Am I hallucinating?

 

Maybe the R61i and Macbook had the better screen. Vista doesn't do a thing to the basic graphics of the system.

 

That's the same thing i was thinking...if anything, my vista computer looks better than my XP.

 

maybe the vista machines didnt have updated drivers?

 

Even that doesn't have anything to do with how the text and basic windows are rendered.

 

Well, maybe we can just conclude that it wasn't vista itself, but the computers?

 

for me it was....same for my friend...right after i did a clean install, and booted for the first time, vista was at the wrong res, and even after changing to the right res, it looked funky, untill i updated the drivers.