Rock's XPS2 Pics - Page 5

Dang, that a stinker... I hope that the next batch get some good LCD's. I talked to a dell rep and as usual they dont know anything. I decided to ask anyway to see what lcd I had with my PC and she said its a dell monitor and some 17 inch wxuga with true life gpwv

hahahah

The results were definitely the opposite of what I expected. As a worse case scenario I thought perhaps only 50% would be LG's. Turns out that as of right now, all (4) of the XPS 2's are LG. Then again Rock noted that his does not have any shimmering at all so who knows. Gonna see what Dragon says in his NBR review.

Im still in boxing so i hope that what ever comes is good...


Maybe there are actually some alright LG's?

I think all LG's are "bad" and not everyone can detect the "sparkles." My order is probably right next to Progneta's, since I've been in boxing for a few days now. It's too late to ship now, so I don't think I'll see mine until next weekend as long as I ship next week by thursday.

Mine went into shipping between 12 and 1 in the morning (today)... you might get lucky tonight

kool pics but fewer

Well I had the 9200. And it sucked. This screen is much, much better. Wait and look at it before knowing for sure. I expected when I powerstripped LG it would suck and it is a very good and crisp screen...

The M$ method is very limited and slow. A far better utility to adjust cleartype is ClearTweak.

100 gig HD vs. 60 gig 7200 rpm?

I ordered my XPS Gen2 with a 100 gig HD fo my large music collection. Everyone seems to be ordering the 60 gig 7200 rpm! Is it because of the increased performance or don't most people need 100 gig?

it's usually the performance boost. the 100Gb as far as i know, and i might be mistaken, is a 4200rpm drive, and the performance difference in between 7200 and 4200 might be as high as 30% depending on the apps, but overall the biggest effect is seen during loading times. However once a thing is loaded there is no impact on performance when the harddisk isn't being used. Also contrary to what ppl might believe the 7200 doesn't impact the battery life that much. there was a detailed article at tomshardware.com

Looks fantastic. Thanks Rock!

If it is indeed the screendoor effect, I am not so worried. We had that effect on the LaCie PhotonVision LCD. Some people saw it clearly, some didn't. I was one of the people that did, but after a few weeks it was gone. I believe my eyes simply got used to it and ignored it.

Thanks for the pictures, Rock!

Geir

Hey Leeu the fact that the person who couldn't seen the sparkles was interesting, there must have been reflection phase shift that cancelled out the path difference causing the colors in the sparkles. That or they just couldn't figure out what the hell you were talking about. The colors in the sparkles you talk about defienately sound like intereference patterns to me, albeit small ones.

...and wouldn't you know it, Philips makes the 2001FP and Samsung makes the 2405FP!

SpaldingEx,
I posted this a few months ago, it was when I was having LCD problems with my i9200 with sparkles. LeeU

After some one wrote that “You shouldn't always trust the opinions of people who refuse to get used to new things -- I'm glad I didn't in this case”. I decided to take my 9200 to work and poll the Rocket Scientist that I work with, yes real Rocket Scientist. There is a few things about Rocket Scientist, all brain cells that should have been marked for writing and grammar where switched at birth to make more math brain cells, so I apologize for my slaughter of the English language as superdood pointed out, two: pocket protectors are a myth and lastly when a new computer shows up around Rocket Scientist its like dropping blood into the shark tank at Sea World, it creates a frenzy.
I had 10 of my co-workers come buy one at a time and look at my 9100 work computer next to my personal 9200, as I said in my first post both have the same video card and both have the WUXGA screens.

I asked the following questions:

1) Which monitor do you like the best? Excluding size.
70% 9100 30% 9200
2) Which monitor is clearer?
100 % 9100 0% 9200
3) Which monitor is brighter?
40% 9100 60% 9200
4) Do you see any shimmering or sparkle effect on the 9100 or 9200?
0% 9100 100 % 9200
5) Does it bother you? (See note below)
70% Yes 30% No
6) Do you think you could get used to it in time?
70% No 20% Yes 10 % Maybe
7) Which computer would you buy, 9100 or 9200? (based on monitor only, not the computer).
60% 9100 40% 9200

Note: The ones that said it did not bother them all had glasses or contacts except our network guy who also has glasses but it bothered him.


We all used to have 21” or 25” big tube type monitors on our desk, now we mostly have 21” LCD high end View Sonics. When I would go to one of my co-workers office to look at something on her computer I would have to always increase her monitor refresh rate as I’m very sensitive to that (I have 20:15 uncorrected vision) but she did not understand why it bothered me (she wore contacts), she had Lasic surgery performed on her eyes and now she has to have very high refresh rates. I’m a bit curious about the others out there that like this monitor, do you wear contacts or glasses? I tried to do this as fairly and objectively as I could. I do believe that direct comparison is the best way to determine if this monitor is a step forward or backwards.
Let the flames begin. LeeU

Rock,

Can you decipher for once and all the ability to (or not to) play DVDs from a non booted state?

Thanks

ajbrutico

Taken from a 9300 review -

Dell includes a "Dell Media Experience" software package. If you press one of the media buttons on the front while the laptop is powered off, it will boot up to windows and load this software. There are some misconceptions that this laptop can play DVDs and CD's without booting into windows. This is not the case. For playing DVD's, Dells software just includes a simplified version of Cyberlink powerDVD, which is also included separately.

Very nice...I see you have Far Cry installed - how's that running so far?

EDIT: It would be great if you could download some modded Forceware drivers and rerun 3dmark05. It looks like OC'ing is out of the picture (for now at least), so it'd be interesting to see what kind of an effect a driver change has.