xga or sxga for 15 inch laptop

[farp96]

I'm getting a dell laptop. And it comes with a 15.4 inch xga truelife screen. For Another $50 I can get a Sxga screen. Is it worth it? What would be the benefit of it. This is on a widescreen btw...Also my vision sucks so I like my text and icons on the bigger side of things...

Thanks

 

[sisq0kidd]

I would personally get the sxga+ as it's worth the $50 to me.

But I also like my text and icons small with a larger desktop to work with, therefore I would take advantage of the wide sxga+ screen.

If you're tight on a budget, aren't going to resell your laptop anytime soon and don't care for higher resolutions, just get the xga screen.

If not, then upgrade. The main benefit would be a larger area to work with, but at the cost of shrunken text and icons.

 

[farp96]

So quality wise WSXGA isn't any better than WXGA? It just offers more desktop space, by making text and icons smaller?

 

[postmortemIA]

Quality is better as the dot pitch is significantly smaller, so fonts are less pixelated. But the price is that it is more difficult to read.

Do you do any developing? Photoshop? Ifyes, higher resolution is for you.

 

[sisq0kidd]

Sxga vs xga is a little more complicated than just having your icons and text appear smaller. Think of it more as different resolutions being displayed on a set 15.4 screen. Take your Nec 90GX2 19 inch Lcd for example and pick 1024x768 instead of it's native 1280x1024. You'll see that things appear to be bigger and since everything is bigger, you have less room to work with. Same thing should apply to the laptop you want.