What is a 15.4"screen?

[deepakvrao]

Been planning to buy a laptop and saw an ACER Travelmate 4000 series with a 15.4 screen.In what way and how much better is it than a regular 15" screen? Compaq have brought out a 14"widesreen. What is that?

 

[MDE]

It's better because it's bigger . 15.4" screens are usually widescreens, and it allows you to cram more stuff on the screen, but because it's bigger, the laptop automaticaly becomes bigger. My laptop has a 15.4" widescreen and I like it.

 

[Abhi]

What MDE said.. and i love mine too.

 

[trikster2]

deepakvrao

You need to go to a bestbuy or compusa and look at the widescreens yourself.

Some people love the wide screens, some people hate them.

I love/hate them.

For some things they are wonderful, spreadsheets and movies rock.

But working on a document, or browsing the web, you are probably better off with a standard screen.

On my 1900x1200 15.4" wide screen D800 a standard web page does not even fill 1/2 the screen, so most of the time I feel like I am working on a 10" or smaller notebook. You can expand word documents to fill the screen, but then you only get like 1/2 the lines on screen you normaly would get, again making it feel like you are working on a lot smaller screen. If you like ittybitty things this is all swell, you can fit two web pages or two documents side by side, but again working on those documents will feel like working on 10" notebook.

OTOH, pop in a DVD, and I am in heaven.....

 

[deepakvrao]

Thanks for the detailed reply. Cnt really check it out now as they are not available in India and am ordering from abroad. Will chance it and go with the widescreen.

 

[geejo]

How does normal resolution like vga ( for classic games) , svga , xga look in the 15.4 Wide screen does it get streached..... or is there an option to see it as normal ( by leaving the xtra .4" inch blank)

 

[Mermaidman]

Originally posted by: geejo
How does normal resolution like vga ( for classic games) , svga , xga look in the 15.4 Wide screen does it get streached..... or is there an option to see it as normal ( by leaving the xtra .4" inch blank)

It's more than a 0.4" difference. The 15.4" display has the following dimensions: 13" x 8.25" so the aspect ratio is different vs a 15" display.

15.4" aspect ratio is 16:10,
15" aspect ratio is 4:3

 

[geejo]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman

It's more than a 0.4" difference. The 15.4" display has the following dimensions: 13" x 8.25" so the aspect ratio is different vs a 15" display.

15.4" aspect ratio is 16:10,
15" aspect ratio is 4:3

Does that mean you cannot get svga or xga on 15.4 (with out being streached or modifed ) if so does that streaching make svga and xga undesirable on 15.4

Which other resolution fits 15.4 other than the native wxga

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: deepakvrao
Thanks for the detailed reply. Cnt really check it out now as they are not available in India and am ordering from abroad. Will chance it and go with the widescreen.

Deepak, I am in India and I have a widescreen

 

[deepakvrao]

Hi Abhi,

Which make do you have and did you pick it up here?

 

[GimpyOne]

As a quick note. You can turn off stretching completely on the widescreens and have black bars all the way around.

Or you can have it stretch it and keep the aspect ratio, normally only leaving bars on the left and right.

Or you can have it fill the screen and stretch both ways which means it'll look kind of squished.

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: deepakvrao
Hi Abhi,

Which make do you have and did you pick it up here?

Hey...

Its a 1680 X 1050 WSXGA+ on my Dell Inspiron 8500

Its a beautiful screen. Possibly the best thing about my laptop.

Got it from USA.