3790 wsxga wuxga side-by-side pics

One of my coworkers decided to get one with a wuxga screen so I just had to take a few pics. In our opinion, the differences between the 2 that we both agreed on:

1. Viewing angles are exactly the same.
2. The wsxga is brighter and the colors are more vibrant (we went into the advanced display properties and cranked the brightness on the wuxga so they would look as close as possible for the pictures)
**this is in no way implying that the wuxga is dull looking on its own, both are absolutely gorgeous screens**
3. The wuxga has slightly smoother text. The wsxga is slightly grainy or pixelated compared to the wuxga (I never noticed this till looking at them side by side)
4. The wuxga is too hard to read at native res, but bumping up the dpi like in the last couple of pics solves the problem for a lot of things (but not all). Don't bank on being able to lower the res on the wuxga, it looks like total crap at anything but 19x12
5. Movies look the same other than the wsxga is brighter (see #2)
6. In photoshop the photos look slightly more smooth and defined on the wuxga

Hope this helps someone on the fence out there. I was really surprised, I was expecting something way better than mine based on other peoples comments about how awesome the wuxga is. All I'm saying is that the wsxga is equally as awesome. Just depends on how small you like stuff.

edit: We did the benchies and I forgot to put them in here

wsxga-----wuxga
3166------3140----3D03
11494-----11509---3D01
26482-----26288---Aquamark
3419------3440----PC04
48.6 fps---48.8 fps-Doom3 (details in post #16)


Wsxga is on the left in all pictures:

















Here's the icons at native res:


Here's a text shot with the native res on each:


Closeup of previous shot:


Here's a text shot with the wuxga set to 108 dpi or 113% normal:


Closeup of the previous shot:

Here's some more pics from the requests below. Enjoy. Again, the wsxga is on the left in all pics.

From Star Wars II:


Doom3 @ 1024x768 med, full screen(stretch):


Photoshop, single photo, no adjustments made to the picture:


Photoshop, folder view, both displaying the same thing:


Dreamweaver, with notebookforums.com code:


Dreamweaver & Photoshop CS side-by-side:


MSN.com & CNN.com, windows were set to the smallest size without a slider at the bottom:


Coolhand's website. Again, windows shrunk to minimum with no slider:


A different look, flash pic just off to the side enough for no reflection:

No salt needed draw, this is just 2 peoples opinions. We all know there are lots of people that love it.

I forgot to mention that the difference in size is not that big, but for me it crosses the line to where I have to lean forward or squint. And I have 20/20 corrected vision.

Any more picture requests? Webpages or apps, if I've got it I'll do it. Cutoff is about 2pm mst Sunday. We're meeting at work again tomorrow, after that I'm taking the camera home.

Doom3, 800x600, medium quality, shadows off, set to full screen. Everything else default. I did not install the patch so I can't run widescreen res. \timedemo demo1 was run.

Identical video driver (what came on the disk with the laptop, prob cat 4.5), directx 9.0b, no doom tweaks. The wsxga is loaded with a bunch of junk that I was trying out, the wuxga is close to a fresh install of windows.

wsxga=48.6 fps
wuxga=48.8 fps

0.2 second difference. Our machines are spec'd the same other than the screen and he has bluetooth.

Both looked the same during the demo other than the color/brightness mentioned above.

BTW, I didn't notice the stretch.

Can you tell me a few games that would let me run that res? Or how to change it to allow it? I've got Doom3, Farcry, & MOHAA on me.

Pics updated and new pics added on page 1. Valkryst, I apologize but I can't get it to run with the patch. If you want to know why, pm me. Once I froze it, the game does look a little better on the wuxga in my opinion. Brighter isn't always better I guess. Look at the doom pic and decide for yourself though.