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15.6" laptop screen: 720 or 1080?
nlawalker
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I'm ordering a Dell Studio 15 (15.6" screen) soon and the only component I haven't made up my mind on is the screen. My options are basically 720P and 1080P; 900 is not an option.
Does anybody have advice one way or the other? I don't really plan on watching anything serious on it or doing a ton of gaming, and it has an HDMI out for when I do want to watch something. It's just that I've heard that Dell's 720P display is of much lower quality than the 1080, but that a 1080 15.6" screen makes everything so damn small. That's not a big problem for things like webpages and docs but we all know that nothing else in Windows scales very well; even text, for which there are scaling options, will end up goofy and out of proportion at anything but the default. The cost isn't really a factor, I just want to get something that is functional and that will last a while.
TIA.
Does anybody have advice one way or the other? I don't really plan on watching anything serious on it or doing a ton of gaming, and it has an HDMI out for when I do want to watch something. It's just that I've heard that Dell's 720P display is of much lower quality than the 1080, but that a 1080 15.6" screen makes everything so damn small. That's not a big problem for things like webpages and docs but we all know that nothing else in Windows scales very well; even text, for which there are scaling options, will end up goofy and out of proportion at anything but the default. The cost isn't really a factor, I just want to get something that is functional and that will last a while.
TIA.
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But I would get the 720 to save the cash. 1080 on a laptop seems a bit silly, even if the laptop if ginormous, especially since you don't plan on doing intense gaming. Are you getting a Bluray drive? As for making things small, that has to do with screen resolution set by your video card. You can make things big on a big screen, or small on a big screen.
Also, if you run the laptop to a TV, the TVs resolution is important not your laptops.
What is the price difference? If its more than $50, go 720.
Is it? That's the smallest Studio they offer, except the ones in the Z series, and I don't care that much about thickness. I'm told the Studio is of much higher quality than the Inspiron.
Clearly you're not a fan. What would you recommend? One thing I didn't mention is that I get a hefty (30%) discount on Dells.
I want it running in native resolution. The video card is more than up to the task of 1080.
The price difference is $75.
Regarding screen size, I use a 9'' screen, so my mind instantly goes "HOLY SHIT" for something in the teens.
On the other hand, 1920x1080 on a 15" display will make everything very small, so if you wear glasses you might have trouble reading it.
If it were my choice I would go for the 1920 display.
edit: 1280x720 means you have to do all your work inside the blue rectangle:
What that can't be right.. I'm got a 15'' dell laptop with the resolution set at 1280x800 and that blue square is a helluva lot smaller than my screen. 1280x800 is PLENTY of room for everything you'd want to put in it.
I cannot see myself going under 1600 resolution, let alone 1280. I have absolutely NO screen real estate with anything below that. I have a 1920 and I would never, ever, go below that. The advantages of the resolution are definitely true.
1280x720 is plenty if you enjoy scrolling down all day and don't do any coding or graphics or design. It's fine for netbooks or whatever but for a full size, 15 inch notebook, 1280x720 is a huge compromise.
On a laptop?
I switched up to a Studio XPS 16 (which offers a 15.6 1600x900 panel), but it might be a bit more machine than I need and more money than I want to spend so I'm holding off pulling the trigger for now.
I recommend shelling out for the options, if only because trying to upgrade them later is a terrible pain in the wallet (except RAM, which is user-upgradeable). I got the 1366x768 monitor and have regretted it ever since. Should've sprung for 1920x1200 - I can still buy one and install it myself, but it cost'll $200 and it'll break the warranty.
e: someone on the Internets took a photo of their Studio 1555 (this isn't mine, but mine does indeed look like that):
the GPU is the big finned heatsink. There's a copper heatpipe that leads towards the CPU heatpipe... and never gets there. Huh? :S
Yeah I have a 15.4 or whatever inch laptop. 1280x800 is the highest it goes and it works pretty damn well. I don't know what you do but you definitely do not sound like the average user. The vast majority of people don't need 1600x900 let alone 1920x1080. Honestly, that's fucking humongous.
It's quite weird, really, but certain regions get more customization options than others.
There's not a single 900P Studio 15 option on the site. They offer practically every single 15.6" configuration they have with an optional 1080P screen, which makes me wonder if the usability really isn't too bad. I looked at my 4:3 Thinkpad at work today; it's running at 1400*1050 and is perfectly usable. Is a 15.6" 1920*1080 really much harder to read?
Well, yes, it varies by region. I've read (and have noticed myself) that India and Malaysia tend to get some options earlier, or different options, since Dell's production facilities are apparently located there. The Studio 1555 was sold in India a few months before it hit the US market, for instance.
Someone here mentions the 900p Studio 1557 he just got. No idea where he is ordering from, though. It's mentioned as being available in the US, weirdly enough.
Browsers also will scale up or down text, while leaving graphics alone. I assume all this functionality is available in other operating systems if that's what you're choosing to run.
I also think 1280x800 is way too lo-res for a 15-16" screen that's, at most, 2 ft from my face.
If those are your only two options, unless you really don't want the extra space, go bigger. You can up the font dpi in windows very easily if you're worried text will be too small.
This. I'm running a 15.6" ASUS with a 1920x1080 screen. The image is absolutely crisp, and Win7 will scale things properly.
Then again, I have no icons on my desktop whatsoever (just rainmeter widgets), but web sites look perfectly readable.
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Go to best buy, and play with a few is probably your best option. You'll have trouble finding 1080p laptops there, but they should have one or two.
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and my main pc is 1440x900
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I don't know, I have a 1920*1080 monitor on my desktop, and I have no problems switching from that to my 15.6" laptop screen at 1280*800. Yeah, they're worlds apart, but the laptop is perfect for browsing with, even if there is a big disconnect in how I use Firefox on both - on the laptop the browser is always open maximised, so no screen space for anything else, while on the desktop it's about 3/8th's the size. And that's not even counting the second monitor (at 1440*900) that I sometimes use.
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