9200 Screen choice driving me crazy - Page 2

I wouldn't choose a laptop screen the same way I choose a desktop screen because of one factor: working distance. I am a lot closer to a laptop screen than I am to a desktop screen, so I can handle smaller fonts and appreciate smaller pixels. conversely, my distance from a desktop screen necessitate larger fonts and help smooth out the grains that are large pixels.

I currenly use an 20" Apple Cinema LCD at 1680x1050 and wouldn't want it to have any higher resolution. Yet I am quite happy with a 14.1" Inpiron at 1400x1050. The 20" desktop screen in this case has bout twice as big in display area yet with only 280 more pixels in one direction.

Mine has shipped, WOO HOO!!!!!
I got the WUXGA and I'll let you know how it is on tues.
WOO HOO!!!!!

I have a Sony A170 which has the 17" WUXGA screen and its resolution is perfect. If the lettering is too small, all you have to do is increase the DPI. I had 15.4" WSXGA screen before, and the resolution is similar.

The WXGA+ is brighter - 200 vs 185 nits.

Your over looking what the R.A.F. did in WW2

Like them I take bilberry herb AKA Vaccimium myrtillus correct latin name of the bilberry fruit. During WW2 The UK bombers were blowing up farms and cows because their nightblindness couldn't make out the correct rectangular shape of blackened out German factories. An old natuorpath like myself gave their pilots and bobardiers bilberry jam and after 2 weeks it was said from Bombardier to Pilot, "maybe that old coot wasn't so off my eyes detect a rectangular shape, so do I said the pilot drop and if we get secondaries we'll tell the group behind us to drop on the fires they see" The next morning a spit on recon AKA a camera photography spitfire, took the pictures and the admiralty said OMG they knocked out the biggest German ball bearing factory, the biggest target of the war.

Read about it or understand taking it works on myopia, besides night blindness and it's a natural source of Vitamin A (Retin A) and this is why a soon to be 58 year old man can read the print of of a UGA screen.
Since a course starting in 1963 I have been into naturopathy, I would have been a ND Doctor of Naturopathy. I made one mistake I married a young woman fresh out of High School, and she didn't want to be in California with her husband and naturopathic doctor, but PA with her family and friends besides me, the state of PA doesn't have a test or license to recognize a N.D. I then became a licensed TT driver all over again, picking my herbs along the roadside, now I buy them use a Cap-M-QuicK encapsulating a ought 0 or double ought capsule 00 to keep my health going strong which includes reading print on screens you younger men can't seem to do.

has anyone compared the WXGA on the 700m to the 9200 screen? Are the sizes (icons/fonts) roughly the same?

I went to the local computer store today to look at laptops with the same specs as the WUXGA screen on the 9200, and was very amazed. The one I saw which was a Sony VIAO A which has the 17" Wide WUXGA 1920x1200, like the 9200 looked good to me. I could live with the small icon and font size. So my decison to get the WUXGA screen is going to be fine. I was really worred about my decison, but now I think it made the right one. The main thing i'm going to be using this computer for is internet and gaming. Now I really can't wait to get it. One thing i'm really conerned about is that the Sony and the another one had built in tv-tuners in them. Is there any hope that dell would put out an upgrade for one on the 9200?

Cheers,
Tang_316

SpeedGeek, I own an Inspiron8600 WUXGA and i am a software developer with many windows and the need for screen real estate. When at work I connect my laptop to an external monitor so that I have 2 displays. I set the other monitor at a different screen resolution and put Outlook + some of the Visual Studio and SQL Server tools over there. I use the laptop screen for most of my work though. The 2 screens ideas is fantastic. I even watch DVDs on one screen whilst working on the laptop.

I'm sure if you got the WUXGA, you could work something out.

I just got a 9200 with WUXGA resolution. It shipped with the display preferences set to 120 DPI (the actual DPI is about 133), but I hate the way it distorts icons on the task bar. I set it back to 96 dpi and just increased the font size. Works great for my eyes. The only thing you have to watch out for is the tendancy to make the windows so wide that you have no hope of finding your place when you wrap to the next line with your eyes. For DPI reference, 17" WUXGA is about 133 dpi and 15.4" WSXGA+ (1680x1050) is 128 dpi -- pretty close. 1440 x 900 on a 17" is 99 dpi, 1680x1050 on a 17" is 116 dpi.

The only thing I don't like about the display is a kind of graininess that it has -- the only thing I can think of that resembles what I'm talking about is the way laser light looks like when it's been spread over a large surface -- you get this speckeled effect that changes as you move your eyes/head. It's minor, mostly appearant when my eyes are close to the screen, but I notice it.

The crispness, stability, and extra realestate of the screen more than makes of for the spekled effect. I was using a 21" CRT at UXGA before my 9200 arrived and after using the 9200 for a day I couldn't belive I was tolorating the CRT -- it was blury, it jiggled, it bugged out my eyes in general (I wasn't pleased with it before I got the 9200, but had to have it at that setting since I needed the resolution [yes, I had optimized the refresh rate, and no, I didn't spring for a better quality VGA cable, which probably would have helped...]).

Anyway, yes, 133 dpi verges on "itty-bitty" (by the way, using an LCD in a non-native resoution that isnt exactly 1/4 of the native resolution is useless in my opinion due to the artifacts from interpolation). But I think 1440x900 errs on the side of too low a resolution.

Hope that helped...

Love to see some pics of that wuxga