9300 owners: tell us about your WUXGA - Page 39

White background: = No problem
Green background: = My eyes

Not good dude. I spent the last 4 months fighting with Dell over my XPS 1. Got sooo pissed, that I decided to get a 9300. Damn!

sorry man, you seemed pretty happy , i was checking to see if you got the perfect LG. i bet your like damn why did i come in here for. but what are the chances you gonna be looking at a background like that? i figure everyone runs into white and black backgrounds more. and if you LG is good enought the colors should look real nice same goes for the black. not really all that good on whites but hey nutting is really perfect. the samsung screen has better whites. but its not in the same level as color sharpness and better blacks those who disagree or lying .

Quick....pick up the phone and call Dell to ask for the Samsung.

I am gonna test it for about 2 more days and see for myself. So far, other than the 2 problems mentioned above, I really haven't faced major problems. If I discover more problems, I am probably going to call in and complain, then write a letter.....

thats the only thing you will find on the LG screen, lil sparkles and dirty whites.

try this out.

85 % contrast and brightness on the nvidia settings

then mess around with the quickset brightness settings , that should make it better

Okay. Got the samsung.

The difference, to me, is amazing. The whites are.. WHITE. Comparing google.com on both of my 9300's side by side, the difference was astounding. The LG had a greyish blue hue over the entire thing, whereas the Samsung was WHITE. I lov it. The colors, although not as "vibrant", are identical with a bit of adjustment via the nvidia control panel.

Viewing angles and brightness are about the same. The Samsung might be a bit brighter, though.

Sparkle, although still slightly there, is nothing compared to the LG.

I couldn't be happier.

Congrats Shodaime! Seems like we got another Samsung lover.

when you boot up how is the light leakage, and how is the black on total black background on you desktop.

problem with the screen i have is that the black is not as solid as the LG was. and it has more light leakage when i boot up. when i set a black background on my desktop its really not all black. i guess my samsung really has a light leakage problem. but yea i agree the colors aint the same as the LG but the whites are much better on full bright.

Stated this in another thread thought I should say it here too...

I have the LG screen. Maybe mine is subpar compared to the rest but I have issues beyond the sparkle effect. When I put up a white screen and look directly at it - there is about a 1" section in the center that is "white" (as white as you get with an LG anyhow). To either side of this section there is a "shadowed" appearance - think of kind of rectangular alien eyes as a shape. Below the "eyes" is another "white" strip that gradually gets shaded down to the bottom of the screen. Each lower corner of the screen is much darker in about a 3/8" radius from the corner. I do not see any detectable light leakage. This is all looking directly at the screen. Not off to a side or anything like that. I have to say the sparkle on mine is horrendous. Even in a "medium" blue I see it. Colors in general need to get pretty dark for it to go away.

As for brightness, I certainly hope the Samsung is brighter. I have mine cranked and my old clunker HP is brighter. Like I said, maybe I have a particularly bad one - ordered it the first day they were availble...

But I do some pretty serious photo editing and I can not work on photos with this...I can with my old desktop Samsung though...

As far as I am concerned a $3500 laptop should have a flawless screen. I know you can get cheaper builds, but sitting next to a sony there is no comparison.

And I should mention - first Dell guy I talked to said send the whole thing back and order a new one. That they will not replace screen....

I have the same corner shadows on my WXGA+ LG screen. The problem seems to be worse on some than others.

On white/light colors, the shadow effect is quite noticeable and annoying at certain off-center angles...Even on medium grays I can see it....

For record J9662 - hate it, no sparkles but no sepia!! grays become black or white...

It may help to download Powerstrip and change the color profile by moving the color temerature to 5900k or so. That should bring back the warm tones. The default is 6900k which is rather cool (blue grey). 5900k on my xps2 seems to warm up the whites without loosing the greyscale.

I can finally help! I did not download PowerStrip as I have not established an Internet connection on my lappy cause I dont have Antivirus ATM. I do have the K9775 and it is amazing. minimal light leak, maybe 2-3 milimeters. Minimal sparklies (although i see it) overall im really happy and will get to work eventually once i get my Antivirus installed.

Add one more fan for the Samsung. Just finished replacing my LG screen, and the differences are pretty dramatic. Most of the sparkles are gone, but not all. Whites are much closer to true white, but still not as good as a Sony. No dead pixels. A little light leakage across the bottom, but no more than my LG had. I can see much more definition in each of the grayscale and color strips on this page (http://oceanlight.com/html/about_color.html) with the Samsung. The diagonal stripes of dark gray on ligher gray pop out now just like on my desktop Samsung 213T. I could barely make them out on the LG. I think the LG did have darker blacks, but at the expense of losing the ability to discern between different shades of dark black. I tweaked the gamma setting while looking the effect on both grays and colors on the test strips. The lower I set the gamma, the better the color definition for the bright reds, greens, and blues, but the dark grays suffered. I ended up at 0.94 gamma correction.

Overall I would give the LG a rating of 2.5 out 10, whereas the Samsung is about a 7.5 out of 10. I'd say the 9300 with the Samsung is definitely a keeper now. Not perfect, but a good enough value for the money.

I was a little worried after receiving the replacement screen. It had the yellow refurb sticker on the side, but that didnt' bug me as much as when I examined the screen inside, I noticed some slight wear marks along the metal bezel around the screen. It looked like this lcd was in another laptop at one time, so I thought maybe it was someone elses reject. Luckily it turned out OK.

With a solid black bg, it's ok but not great. There's still some light leakage across the bottom, but it's more uniform than on the LG. The LG seemed to go from light to dark all in the bottom 2 inches of my screen, making it appear as a much brighter stripe. The Samsung is lighter overall, so the affect of the light leakage across the bottom is less pronounced. I think I actually prefer the lighter blacks on the Samsung, as they allow me to see more shades of gray in the darker shadows. The LG just looked black everywhere in the same areas, losing definition in images where there should be some.

My desktop Samsung lcd has a much more even black across the entire screen, and shows all the color and grey test strips with great clarity. I'd give it a 9 out of 10. So I know Samsung is capable of making a great screen, as I'm sure LG is too. Too bad Dell settled for the second tier. They could have had bragging rights for some time if they hadn't compromised on the screen for the 9300/xps2.

I gotta ask for some pictures (i know I know) but for all us thinking about "dealing" with a LG, we would love you for some samsung pics.

I must admit I have been enjoying my LG in games... I do find some parts of games where I know something is a little wrong. Clouds in morrowind are basicly the same color. While on a CRT they are more textured.

After all I went through with dell, they might be sending me god knows what..