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Will UXGA operate at anything other than 1600x1200?

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TheDebater

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I just bought a Dell 8100 with a 15inch UXGA display, on my computer at home 1600x1200 makes the text too small to read. Is it possible to change the resolution on the laptop or am i stuck with just enlarging the text? thanks
 
LCD screens have a set resolution that they will display perfectly at. You ARE able to scale it down to a lower resolution, but it will look like blurry and overall bad.

Your best bet is to return it for a SXGA screen running at 1400x(i forget offhand). I purchased the SXGA Screen for that very reason, cause i knew 1600 would be too small for a 15" screen.

If you aren't happy with it, return it for what you want
 
Don't worry about it at all. I debated this in my mind for a month of more before I bought mine. Setting your desktop CRT up at 1600x1200 is nothing like a LCD panel.

1600x1200 will give you a much much sharper screen, and tons of space. I run mine in UXGA all the time. Simply increase fonts / icon sizes if you need to. As long as you don't have eye problems you will be fine, and be glad you got the UXGA. If possible, run to a local store and see if they have UXGA screens and adjust the font size etc. When I got mine, no local store had them so I had to get it and hope I liked it... I am very glad I did.

As far as scaling back from UXGA when needed...

The UXGA screen has a lot of pixels. The more pixels it has, the better it is at interpolation... much better than what a 1024x768 looked like when going to 800x600. It is not much of a difference dropping back to a lower res from UXGA. My wife uses 1024x768 most of the time.

 


<< I'm running my UXGA 14.1 inch screen at 1280x1024 with the same clarity as at the higher resolution. >>



uh sorry, but thats not even a correct aspect ration for 1600x1200 pixels. 4:3 vs like 4:5 for 1280x1024.... your screen can't be "clear"... im sure its still better than a crt, but LCD's are only have that quality of being perfectly clear at their native resolutions. There is nothing you can do abou it.
 


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<< I'm running my UXGA 14.1 inch screen at 1280x1024 with the same clarity as at the higher resolution. >>



uh sorry, but thats not even a correct aspect ration for 1600x1200 pixels. 4:3 vs like 4:5 for 1280x1024.... your screen can't be "clear"... im sure its still better than a crt, but LCD's are only have that quality of being perfectly clear at their native resolutions. There is nothing you can do abou it. >>




Well, they are not perfectly clear, but there really is not much of a difference when scaling back a UXGA screen. You are pushing 2 MegaPixels for interpolation.

Another comment for the original poster...
I share an office at work, and the person I work with comments (good) on the screen just about every time he looks at it. He has a XGA compaq.
 


<< I'm running my UXGA 14.1 inch screen at 1280x1024 with the same clarity as at the higher resolution. >>

Quite frankly, I don't believe you. First 1280x1024 is not a resolution that can be properly scaled from XGA's 1600x1200, and second it's not even the correct aspect ratio as someone said. If there is no difference then there is something seriously wrong with your LCD. Even if the text quality were excellent, it's still a "wrong" resolution for a 4:3 display, since images will be somewhat distorted.



<< I just bought a Dell 8100 with a 15inch UXGA display, on my computer at home 1600x1200 makes the text too small to read. Is it possible to change the resolution on the laptop or am i stuck with just enlarging the text? thanks. >>

Well, 800x600 would work but that's defeats the purpose of the screen of course. Or you could run 1400x1050 and waste part of the screen if your drivers allow that, but that doesn't correct your small text problem. Have you at least tried to change both the font size in Windows, and the font size in Internet explorer? (I actually run 1600x1200 on my desktop screen this way. Changing just Windows doesn't address the problem as well.)

Anyways, I still think that for 14" laptop screens the best resolution is still 1280x960 or 1400x1050. Why these are not more common is beyond me. (I run a 12" 1024x768 screen though - very light laptop.)
 


<< Quite frankly, I don't believe you. First 1280x1024 is not a resolution that can be properly scaled from XGA's 1600x1200, and second it's not even the correct aspect ratio as someone said. If there is no difference then there is something seriously wrong with your LCD. Even if the text quality were excellent, it's still a "wrong" resolution for a 4:3 display, since images will be somewhat distorted. >>


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Originally posted by: bacillus
Quite frankly, I don't believe you. First 1280x1024 is not a resolution that can be properly scaled from XGA's 1600x1200, and second it's not even the correct aspect ratio as someone said. If there is no difference then there is something seriously wrong with your LCD. Even if the text quality were excellent, it's still a "wrong" resolution for a 4:3 display, since images will be somewhat distorted.
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1600x1200 = 1.33 = 4:3
1280x1024 = 1.25 = 5:4 (Just because you can display it, doesn't mean it's correct.) This resolution is best used for external 17" LCD monitors, which are built for this resolution.

 
I think i might be a little less concerned about this than you guys are; all i care about is that i can lower the resolution and im not gonna look at it and think "darn, that looks bad." So in other words, even if its not "perfect" its not really gonna matter as long as its pretty good, and who knows i may decide i want to run it at 1600x1200 all the time anyways, thanks folks.
 
Keep it at 1600x1200. I'm on an 8200 with a UXGA screen, and it is much better looking and clearer than my desktop monitor. Everything's real easy to see as well, not a bit of eye strain.
 
Originally posted by: TheDebater
I think i might be a little less concerned about this than you guys are; all i care about is that i can lower the resolution and im not gonna look at it and think "darn, that looks bad." So in other words, even if its not "perfect" its not really gonna matter as long as its pretty good, and who knows i may decide i want to run it at 1600x1200 all the time anyways, thanks folks.
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Like I said before, I think you will be more than happy with how this screen scales to lower resolutions, and I would not be surprised if you kept it at UXGA. It is not "perfect", but it still looks better than the old XGA screens at normal XGA resolution. Take it from someone who has a UXGA screen. That extra screen space might just come in handy sometime. The SXGA has about 1.47MegaPixels, and the UXGA has about 1.92 if I recall correctly. That is a pretty good jump in clarity.

The only think that I think is a bit too small and can't be changed are some webpages built with CSS style sheets with already small fonts... like they were designed for 800x600.


 
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