UXGA

[dakels]

I just bought a new 9100 as a PC desktop replacement for my sister's family. I dont see why people would want a 1600x1200 UXGA on a 15" screen. Isn't everything miniscule? And if you want to run a game... a laptop video card is going to be a bit weak anyways, why kill it at 1600 res?

I hate running LCD's at the blurry non native resolutions. Is this just not an issue with people? With Max OS X its generally not an issue since the OS X scales its fonts, menus and icons and also has a native antialiasing built into the OS. But I need a magnifying glass for my PC's at a very high resolution.

 

[MDE]

Try 800x600, no scaling but it's friggin huge.

 

[vegetation]

Originally posted by: dakels
I just bought a new 9100 as a PC desktop replacement for my sister's family. I dont see why people would want a 1600x1200 UXGA on a 15" screen. Isn't everything miniscule? And if you want to run a game... a laptop video card is going to be a bit weak anyways, why kill it at 1600 res?

I hate running LCD's at the blurry non native resolutions. Is this just not an issue with people? With Max OS X its generally not an issue since the OS X scales its fonts, menus and icons and also has a native antialiasing built into the OS. But I need a magnifying glass for my PC's at a very high resolution.

I can scale everything just the way I like it to be under win xp. My 1920x1200 screen looks just like a regular wxga screen, but the power of the screen gives me the ability to read two pdf or word documents side by side with perfect clarity and without scrolling sideways. To me, that feature is something I find very valuable, more so than any other feature on a laptop such as a faster processor or such.

 

[dakels]

scaling? Hmm... My powerbook has a feature like that, if we are talking about the same thing.
By pushing a key command, I can zoom into any area of the screen and also move around the edges with my mouse. Same as a magnify function on some video card/drivers.

I normally run my 15-17" LCDs are 1024x768, and 19" or above 1280x1024. Anything higher just seems too tiny. Most non tech people I know run a step less at 800x600 and 1024x768.

 

[Confused]

1600x1200 on a 15" LCD

Font sizes are on standard, and I wouldn't have it any other way. The screen is absolutely AWESOME.

Everyone at work asks how I see it, but these people are only running (at best) 1024x768 on their 15" screens (most against their will, but it's good to lock down the computer so they can't adjust the screen size back to 800x600)


Confused

 

[Conroy9]

If everything is too small for you, you can always make the fonts larger size. I use my 15" UXGA with 125% fonts most of the time, but I'm getting used to the smaller fonts too

I'm getting sxga+ (1400x1050) with my next laptop though...