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The screen on my Inspiron 8500 (Samsung WSXGA+) is much much sharper and brighter than the one on my thinkpad T41 (SXGA+).

However, I still find the Thinkpad screen fine to work with...
 
I am only interested in regular XGA displays (or WXGA).
Nothing with high resolution.
My eyes don't work with them.
Andrew
Austin, TX
 
I have had the same problem with the higher res latptops. I have a T23, and had a 600X before that. The 600X screen was wonderful. I returned the T23 to IBM for a better screen due to uneven lighting. It got a little better but the issues were still there. I believe the external casing is putting stress on the LCD screen causing uneven light filtering -- i.e. I don't think it's poor lighting as it is compact everything but maintaining computer case rigidity with tight tolerances on case geometry.
 
I can't stand laptop displays. That's probably why I'll stay with my desktop computer 😀
 
My 15" Powerbook has a nice widescrean with average resolution. Very nice screen IMHO... but then again you'd have to buy a mac 🙂
 
The 15" Flexview was the best of all of them, but I am not suited to SXGA+ and it was larger than I wanted. I did find the display, although it had decent viewing angles, to be very subdued and soft.
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Unless you have eye problems, I think you are well suited to SXGA+. It's something you have to get used to after XGA, but things aren't so tiny as to present a usability problem, as can happen with UXGA, and you can get a lot more on the screen. I think every new machine you buy will force a period of adjustment, after which you'll be completely at home-- unless there is a real problem. I'm just saying that for the great bulk of people out there, it's not a problem.

My girlfriend has a 12" XGA Inspiron 300m. At first I couldn't stand the size/resolution, but I got to like it pretty well, although I wouldn't go much smaller than that with XGA.

I have an Inspiron 8200 with an UltraSharp 15" UXGA display. The display on that machine is beautiful: sharp and evenly lit, with great color and decent response time. Overall, it's a better monitor for displaying images than my 2001FP 20" LCD monitor. However, the resolution at that size winds up being annoying. I would never even come close to getting another 15" UXGA screen.

I know what you mean about "subdued and soft" with the FlexView displays. At first I wanted to make mine impossibly bright, but after a few days I really got used to it, and found that it seems to reduce eye strain. I'm not an IBM lover, either-- I'm forced to live with this machine from work, and I'm just finding that I like it. Some bonehead mistakes were made with the keyboard (for instance, the lower-left key is the FN key instead of CTRL-- most Thinkpads seem to be like that), and the touchpad isn't optimally designed, but I'm mostly liking the laptop.
 
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