Time to upgrade my monitors?

[Hooobi]

I'm running two older 18" dells on my desktop and have been thinking of upgrading to 1 larger monitor. I love the high resolution on my laptop (1920x1200) which allows me to have two full pages open and workable side-by-side.

All I'm seeing on the larger LCDs is 1600x1050 and I'm wondering if that will give me at least as much real-estate on a 21" screen as I'm getting on my laptop screen.

Thoughts?

TIA!

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: Hooobi
I'm running two older 18" dells on my desktop and have been thinking of upgrading to 1 larger monitor. I love the high resolution on my laptop (1920x1200) which allows me to have two full pages open and workable side-by-side.

All I'm seeing on the larger LCDs is 1600x1050 and I'm wondering if that will give me at least as much real-estate on a 21" screen as I'm getting on my laptop screen.

Thoughts?

TIA!

If you want 1920x1200 you're going to have to look at the 23-24" LCD's.

I'm perfectly content with 1600x1200, however I came from a 1280x1024 monitor before it.

How big is your laptop screen? 1920x1200 is pretty high res for what I'm guessing is a screen 17" or less.

 

[BernardP]

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
If you want 1920x1200 you're going to have to look at the 23-24" LCD's.
How big is your laptop screen? 1920x1200 is pretty high res for what I'm guessing is a screen 17" or less.

I would even say...Are you sure :evil: your laptop screen is 1920x1200?

Make? Model?

 

[moonboy403]

man!...text would be INSANELY small on 17" screen with such resolution

 

[Hooobi]

Yup, 17" Dell (Inspiron 9300) with the upgraded screen & GeForce Go 6800 card. Text is pretty small, but clear. I think the 23-24" screens might be a bit pricey... surely there's something a bit smaller that will still give me the same amount of workspace?

 

[Matt2]

I dont think so. 1680x1050 definately wont give you the workable space of 1920x1200

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Hooobi
Yup, 17" Dell (Inspiron 9300) with the upgraded screen & GeForce Go 6800 card. Text is pretty small, but clear. I think the 23-24" screens might be a bit pricey... surely there's something a bit smaller that will still give me the same amount of workspace?

In a few months monitor prices should come down a bit with new models coming out so might wanna wait. Gee wait a few months, never heard that before in the computer hardware game have we?

 

[BernardP]

I still could not believe (sorry) the 1920x1200 resolution of this laptop and confirmed it HERE. They say 1900x1200.

If a 17-inch laptop screen can display this resolution, how come, on the desktop, we have to step up to 23 or 24 inches size to get it?

 

[betasub]

That laptop screen is "high-end" and hence the equivalent of 23-24" LCD desktop screens. The high-end laptop has to be portable, with a screen usable at about half an arm's length from the viewer. The (non-portable) desktop screen is typically used at one to two arm's lengths from the viewer. Considering perspective, the end result for a single user is fairly similar.

If there were significant commercial demand for 1920x1200 resolution on 17-19" LCD desktops, I've no doubt a manufacturer would provide them (most likely based directly on their laptop panels).

 

[xtknight]

There are 15.4" laptops that do 1920x1200. There's simply little demand for the desktop since the font would be so small. The average viewing distance when looking at a laptop is a lot lower.

All of the 1920x1200 15.4" LCD modules I know of can only do 262,000 colors. They require dithering support on the graphics adapter.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: xtknight
There are 15.4" laptops that do 1920x1200. There's simply little demand for the desktop since the font would be so small. The average viewing distance when looking at a laptop is a lot lower.

All of the 1920x1200 15.4" LCD modules I know of can only do 262,000 colors. They require dithering support on the graphics adapter.

i don't know how they can claim there is little demand for such when no one has bothered testing the market with a product.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: xtknight
There are 15.4" laptops that do 1920x1200. There's simply little demand for the desktop since the font would be so small. The average viewing distance when looking at a laptop is a lot lower.

All of the 1920x1200 15.4" LCD modules I know of can only do 262,000 colors. They require dithering support on the graphics adapter.

i don't know how they can claim there is little demand for such when no one has bothered testing the market with a product.

I don't know either. I want them just as bad as you do. The lower dot pitch improves scaling quality. But, the lower dot pitch also makes response time very difficult to control.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: xtknight
There are 15.4" laptops that do 1920x1200. There's simply little demand for the desktop since the font would be so small. The average viewing distance when looking at a laptop is a lot lower.

All of the 1920x1200 15.4" LCD modules I know of can only do 262,000 colors. They require dithering support on the graphics adapter.

i don't know how they can claim there is little demand for such when no one has bothered testing the market with a product.

I'm sure there has been. I've seen alot of polls too for people's screen resolutions. Most people are still using 1024x768 or 1280x1024. Infact I've seen alot of people with high res monitors running them at lower resolutions because they can't read text.

Also remember, LCD's aren't the only displays that can do high res. There have been plenty of small (well small for a crt) CRT monitors that can do above 1600x1200.

 

[terentenet]

I have both. 1680x1050 on my 20.1" desktop NEC and 1920x1200 on the 17" DELL 9400. I noticed one thing though. You name the Dell display high end? The screen coating is bad, creates some kind of moire, backlight bleeding, and the colours can never match the NEC.
Text is also preety hard to read on a 17" 1920x1200 display and can make your eyes hurt in a matter of 2-3 hours.
I'd say 1680x1050 is enough for now.

 

[zephyrprime]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: xtknight
There are 15.4" laptops that do 1920x1200. There's simply little demand for the desktop since the font would be so small. The average viewing distance when looking at a laptop is a lot lower.

All of the 1920x1200 15.4" LCD modules I know of can only do 262,000 colors. They require dithering support on the graphics adapter.

i don't know how they can claim there is little demand for such when no one has bothered testing the market with a product.

I've read basically the same thing. There's just no demand in the market for it. The capital costs would be too high for such a small market. The only people willing to pay so much for a high rez monitor are radiologists and their screens are monochrome.