Posts by symphy

To top off my complaining over the unusable screen, this system crashed (while doing nothing!) today, then blue-screened and reported several bad clusters --- not just cross-linked files or something but actual bad clusters! Then, while...

Huh. You know what's funny, my SEC screen that I'm complaining about so badly actually has no light leakage at all -- black is pure black from the top to the bottom, even when watching a full-screen DVD or videogame. At least on that...

Hmm. I wish there was some way of finding out whether my screen's just worse than normal or if I'm just more sensitive to the grain-dust-stuff...

We THINK there are two separate screens for the Dell: UD455 LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, 14.1WXGA, GLARE WIDE VIEWING ANGLE, QUANTA DISPLAY INCORPORATED or TD508 LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, 14.1WXGA, GLARE WIDE VIEWING ANGLE, SAMSUNG...

whoa!! wait a minute, notorious -- your Dell sheet SPECIFICALLY said it was: UD455 LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, 14.1WXGA, GLARE WIDE VIEWING ANGLE, QUANTA DISPLAY INCORPORATED and instead your laptop had: TD508 LIQUID CRYSTAL...

Yeah, the vertical viewing angle's pretty bad, but that didn't bother me as much. The thing most of us are complaining about only really shows up on white backgrounds, such as the white background in a word processor, for example. On...

Scorpio: how does a "screen replacement" work? Are you sending in your laptop? Or do they send you a screen in a box with instructions on how to swap the part out?

I thought the Dell delivery estimates were lying when I waited all day for mine -- UPS finally came at 7:45pm.

If you have the Samsung display, your order says: Part #TD508 -- LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY, 14.1WXGA, GLARE WIDE VIEWING ANGLE, SAMSUNG If you have the Quanta display, your order says: Part #UD455 -- LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY,...

The Dell just site told me: 14.1 inch WXGA TrueLife™ LCD Panel On my order detail.