I9200 wuxga ???? - Page 10

There's such thing as USB keyboards and mouse and wireless keyboard and mouse...

Right now my screen is over two feet in front of me. It doesn't take 6 people to make fun of someone for stating that they normally sit 3 feet from the screen. Chill.

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We're talking about a laptop here. If you want to use a wireless keyboard and mouse with a laptop.. that's fine, although it makes zero sense. And I fail to understand how you're suppose to use a laptop that's out of reach at 3 feet.

My screen is more than 2 feet away from me, like yours. But my keyboard can be moved closer to me without moving the screen, unlike a laptop.

And if I offended someone, I apologize. I'm just stating the obvious, not trying to flame someone.

Different people different need.

Laptop & Dell docking stand :

Whoa, that looks pretty cool, never knew that Dell made those kind of stuff. So I guess if you had one of those you could be three feet away.. but for normal use, three feet is still an extreme amount of distance. Wonder how much those things cost..

DELL D/View Notebook Stand for Dell Latitude D-Family Notebooks : $62.10
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...&page=external

Get ready to wait on that refund. I've been waiting 3 weeks. After the hassles I've had with Dell, I won't even consider getting another one.

More than 3 weeks?!? That will kill my credit card. I just hope that I end up liking it.

I have read many thread about this I9200 Display woes. The problem seems to be very noticeable and annoying in white background. I am wondering what whould happen when you change the background color to something less white such as light gray, cyan, purple etc. Will the matte / haze effect disappear?

Just thought I would through out my 2 cents worth on this thread. I personaly love this screen. Its brighter and sharper looking than any other laptop LCD I've used.

I work in a computer lab where we have access to most Dell laptops. This "sparkle" is caused by the anti-reflective material used by the LCD vendors. It is not a I9200 only issue. I currently have two Precision M60 systems and a Lattitude D800 that are all WUXGA systems and they all have the exact same coating on their LCD's. IMO this issue has been slightly overstated and I think it may be unfairly scaring people away from a great system.

As for the 700m comparison, the I9200 WUXGA IMHO is a far better display. The glare off the 700m makes the screen almost unusable under flourescent lighting, I am very glad Dell opted for the anti-glare screen on this platform. This has now become my favorite system and I will have one for home by the end of the year.

I just wanted to thank those who posted that they're keeping the WUXGA screen and wrote such reasoned and well-informed opinions of what they like/dislike about it (as opposed to the "OMG!!!! It sux!!!" type of posts)

My WUXGA 9200 gets ordered today - full spec, 2Gb etc. Thankfully I'm not paying for it myself I'm optimistic that I'll be happy with it.

Yellowlt4:

I set my 700m side to side to my 9200, I don't see how you can say the 9200 wuxga is superior. It is supposed to be with all of the specs, but with the screen like it is, it is simply not a superior display. When you compared the two, did you not notice the difference in colors, ... On the 700m the white is white, on the 9200 the white is dingy yellowish, among with the other problems that i stated on my post previously.

You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but I compared these same two systems at the same time. You said that the 9200 was brighter? I had both turned up all the way and the 9200 was way darker, not as crisp with all of the blurriness of it. All settings were set equally on both computers. How did you come to the conclusion that the 9200 had the brighter better display? Yes it has way more pixels, but if it is too blurry and sparkly to even see the pixel colors, then who cares if you have 8 billion pixels?

I don't mean to undermine your opinion by any means, but I don't think me and people like me are unnecessarily scaring people away from this, people can make their own decisions. Had I known this information, then I wouldn't be out s&h right now and having to wait on another system. I tried to live with the display, but when comparing to another computer it really showed the imperfections of the 9200 WUXGA.

As for the other posts that try to make accomodations to the screen (using a different color of background besides white, turning down brightness, etc), paying this much for a laptop, I should be able to use whatever color I want with whatever brightness I want, and it should not be blurry, or sparkly, or whatever you want to call it.

jslessley

Yes I have both of these systems along with a few others right here in front of me and my I9200 is definetly brighter than my 700M system. The colors are also nearly identical on both systems but the glare on the 700M is makes it very difficult to use for any length of time.

As for the anti-glare vs. Shiny screen I agree it is completely subjective but I can't stand the shiny displays in my work and home enviroments they simply have too much glare.

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on this screen. However my point was that too many people are writing off this system before ever being able to see it. I know of at least 6 other users in my work lab who agree that this is one of the best screens available and I have yet to talk to anyone here in the lab that doesn't love it.

Yes we must agree to disagree then. I too have seen many notebook screens and have never seen anything that I thought was that bad. Oh well, that's what preferences are for.

jslessley

Am trying to decide between the 8600 and 9200. Is it just the wuxga that people are having problems with on the 9200 or are there also negatives with the "standard" (wxga?) screen. TRhx for any input. I'm already sure my eyes wont be happy with the 1920 res!

The same coating is used on the WXGA+ LCD, however the pixel size/count seems to change how visible it appears. Due to the fact that you already know you will not be happy with WUXGA resolution, why not go ahead and get the WXGA+?

I have heard no complaints of the wxga+

jslessley

Can either of you guys take pics with both the 700m and 9200 side by side do compare color/brightness and clarity? The pic that flashram posted was cool, but you can't use flash or that kind of angle when capturing LCDs (no flash with ambient lighting is better). If so, make sure brightness is high on both with both settings at default.

I do not have a camera here I can use but I can try to get a picture tomorrow. I don't think a photogragh is going to tell you much but I can try.

I've already shipped my 9200 back so I cant (unless I chase the UPS guy around town and steal my package back )