WUXGA UltraSharpTM (1920 x 1200) or WSXGA+ UltraSharpTM (1680 x 1050) for 15" laptop screen?

[DaviDaVinci]

This is on the Dell Inspiron 6000. Any experiences?
thanks

 

[Ronin]

Perfectly readable. Resolution isn't a factor at all.

 

[CombatChuk]

If the text is too small you can always bump the text size so go with WUXGA

 

[niggles]

holy duplicate questions. Anyway, I have a WSXGA and have already upped the size of font as large as it will go. It's almost too small for me and I have 20x20 vision.

 

[sparkyclarky]

1920x1200 is simply too high of a resolution on a screen of that size (that is until resolution/dpi independent OSs come out). I've seen that res on a 9300, and that's probably the smallest I'd be willing to go for screen size with that res.

 

[Imaginer]

See my other post.

I find the WSXGA just fine. not too tiny text but it fits alot of info on one screen.

 

[niggles]

Originally posted by: Imaginer
See my other post.

I find the WSXGA just fine. not too tiny text but it fits alot of info on one screen.

totally agree, go with the WSXGA native screen - 1600x1080 I think... it's 1600x something anyway... much better and you can see what you're doing.

 

[BornStar]

I used a 8600 (the laptop before the 6000) for a couple of weeks with a WUXGA 15.4" screen. I absolutely loved the screen because I could see so much on it but I absolutely hated the physical size of the laptop.

 

[Shadowmage]

My M70 has a 1920x1200 screen.

I'm lovin it

 

[trikster2]

I've owned both 1900x1200 and the 1680x1050, the WUXGAon a D800 (main computer for over 2 years) the WSXGA on my current M70 (main computer since feb).

I really hated the 1900x1200. Font scaling in windows is not an exact science. Things are always the wrong size and I was always fidling with getting the text to a size I could read it in.

Also as my external monitor is a 19" 1280x1024 it gave me problems sometimes when sliding from one screen to the next. There is a 200 pixel verticle diference and the mouse would love "catching" on those 200 pixels.

OTOH I find 1680x1050 is perfect. Without messing around with settings/scalling the fonts are very readable. The 1050 is only 16 pixels off from my external monitors 1024 vertical resoltion, so no problem there and there is a final consideration. Games are going to look best in there native resolution. If you are playing games, the lower resolutions are going to be easy for your wussy laptop graphics to drive at the native res.

This is all very subjective. You need to go to a circuit city or CUSA and LOOK at the diferent reses. Decide for yourself