Who makes the best laptop screens?

[slicksilver]

It is the only criteria I'm looking at for my next purchase. Can anybody help?

Thanks

 

[TheStu]

Lenovo ThinkPad w700
Apple MacBook Pro 17"
Dell Studio XPS 16

These all have RGB LED backlights, which give them better color reproduction.

Onto the matte vs. glossy issue, which I can almost gaurantee would have come up even had I not mentioned it.

I have read numerous articles written by everyone from programmers, to graphic designers to professional photographers, and have used numerous laptops with both matte and glossy screens.

Here is the concensus.

There is no concensus.

There are professionals that prefer glossy due to how they make the colors pop, and there are professionals that use matte due to the fact that they have less glare.

Here is the issue with either. If you are a pro, you are going to be calibrating the screen anyway, so it doesn't matter what the screen looked like before.

 

[reallyscrued]

By the way, keep in mind the screens put into laptops are rarely manufactured by the people who eventually sell them. For example, Dell uses screens made by Toshiba, NEC, and so on, much like they use RAM by Hynix and hard drives by Western Digital. In the past, there have been noticeable differences between screens even in the same model/year laptop.

Also theStu, its funny you mention the glossy/matte debate, I was just wondering if they are ever going to find some sort of middle ground that could please everyone.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: reallyscrued
By the way, keep in mind the screens put into laptops are rarely manufactured by the people who eventually sell them. For example, Dell uses screens made by Toshiba, NEC, and so on, much like they use RAM by Hynix and hard drives by Western Digital. In the past, there have been noticeable differences between screens even in the same model/year laptop.

Also theStu, its funny you mention the glossy/matte debate, I was just wondering if they are ever going to find some sort of middle ground that could please everyone.

Well, the problem has to do with the fact that in addition to light emanating from the backlight, a glossy screen also allows light to reflect off the screen which is why they appear brighter and more vibrant. It is a sort of dual lighting approach.

On the other hand, you have a matte screen which has the light from behind that then gets diffused once it leaves the screen, causing some blurriness and you lose some color and brightness in the process. On top of that, light coming toward the screen is also diffused, which is why they are sold as anti-glare.

 

[IlllI]

i never liked glossy, b/c i dont particularly care to look at my reflection while staring at the computer