who thinks that the 17" WUXGA matte screen on the 9880 is not up to Sager standards?
I waited about a week for my nerves to calm down before I was going to post an evaluation of this screen. Seeing how pissed I was when I first saw the screen, I knew that it would not be a fair assessment, so here I am one week later and ready to give you folks a fair assessment of the screen.
First of all, one of the biggest reasons I went with a Sager and not a Dell, was because I could not tolerate the poor quality screens on the XPS2.
So, when I first fired up the 9880, I immediately noticed very minor light leakages all evenly distributed on the bottom of the screen when the black background Win XP screen came up. And my heart immediately began sinking slowly to the pit of my stomach. However, deep inside, I didn't give up hope and thought that maybe everything else would be perfect.
Then the blue Win XP screen comes on, you know, the blue background that comes on when you click to log in. And there in the left upper corner was a golf ball sized splotch of light blue color that looked as if it's washed out or something. This caused me to get up quickly from my chair in anger and disgust. Angry because after seeing the WSXGA screen, I thought Sager was all about quality. And disgust because after ordering the $200 no dead/pixel option, I would think that the Sager tech who put this computer together would've seen such an obvious defect on the top left hand corner.
Then, as I looked down on the screen while I was standing, there seems to be greater unevenness in light leakages on the left bottom of the screen. Then I immediately turned off the laptop and did not come back to it until 3 days later. This was how disappointed I was.
During this break, I couldn't help but think wtf Sager? How could you put a crappy screen like this in the 9880? I mean I could've sworn that 5150 Joker was playing a trick on me and switched his crappy XPS2 screen with mine at the Sager factory.
However, the next couple of days, I installed Doom3 and Prince of Persia Warrior Within just to get a feel of the colors and ghosting if there was any on this screen. If there was a light at the end of the tunnel for this screen, it's that the colors are beautifully rich and full of depth. And there was absolutely no ghosting at all even at full max resolutions on DOOM III. And yeah, the picture quality and colors on these games were marvelous! No complaints there.
The colors are also extraordinarily true and accurate in photoshop and DVD movies were a joy. So no complaints there either. And on a Word Document white background, there were very minor sparkles, but to those who don't know what sparkles are, you won't notice it.
When surfing on the net or using MS documents, I noticed that the letters on the tool bars were kind of blurry, but the texts on a typed Word document were clear, so I didn't know what was going on there.
And yes I played around with all the settings, even settings similar to many Dell XPS2 users, but I still could not get rid of the blurriness in the tool bars and the minor sparkles on an all white background.
In comparison to the WSXGA screen I used to have on the 9860, I'd have to say that this screen falls short in quality despite its higher resolution. Although the colors on this screen is very good, the colors on the WSXGA still seemed a little more true, and richer in depth. This is probably due to the WSXGA screen being a glossy type. However, the biggest advantage that the WSXGA screen had over this matte screen is that there was absolutely no light leakages and no sparkles whatsoever! And no matter what settings I adjusted this screen to, it still fell short of the WSXGA's quality.
So, needless to say, this baby is going back, and I'm going to give the WUXGA glossy screen a shot next.
Sorry for the long post, but I hope you found this helpful.
I waited about a week for my nerves to calm down before I was going to post an evaluation of this screen. Seeing how pissed I was when I first saw the screen, I knew that it would not be a fair assessment, so here I am one week later and ready to give you folks a fair assessment of the screen.
First of all, one of the biggest reasons I went with a Sager and not a Dell, was because I could not tolerate the poor quality screens on the XPS2.
So, when I first fired up the 9880, I immediately noticed very minor light leakages all evenly distributed on the bottom of the screen when the black background Win XP screen came up. And my heart immediately began sinking slowly to the pit of my stomach. However, deep inside, I didn't give up hope and thought that maybe everything else would be perfect.
Then the blue Win XP screen comes on, you know, the blue background that comes on when you click to log in. And there in the left upper corner was a golf ball sized splotch of light blue color that looked as if it's washed out or something. This caused me to get up quickly from my chair in anger and disgust. Angry because after seeing the WSXGA screen, I thought Sager was all about quality. And disgust because after ordering the $200 no dead/pixel option, I would think that the Sager tech who put this computer together would've seen such an obvious defect on the top left hand corner.
Then, as I looked down on the screen while I was standing, there seems to be greater unevenness in light leakages on the left bottom of the screen. Then I immediately turned off the laptop and did not come back to it until 3 days later. This was how disappointed I was.
During this break, I couldn't help but think wtf Sager? How could you put a crappy screen like this in the 9880? I mean I could've sworn that 5150 Joker was playing a trick on me and switched his crappy XPS2 screen with mine at the Sager factory.
However, the next couple of days, I installed Doom3 and Prince of Persia Warrior Within just to get a feel of the colors and ghosting if there was any on this screen. If there was a light at the end of the tunnel for this screen, it's that the colors are beautifully rich and full of depth. And there was absolutely no ghosting at all even at full max resolutions on DOOM III. And yeah, the picture quality and colors on these games were marvelous! No complaints there.
The colors are also extraordinarily true and accurate in photoshop and DVD movies were a joy. So no complaints there either. And on a Word Document white background, there were very minor sparkles, but to those who don't know what sparkles are, you won't notice it.
When surfing on the net or using MS documents, I noticed that the letters on the tool bars were kind of blurry, but the texts on a typed Word document were clear, so I didn't know what was going on there.
And yes I played around with all the settings, even settings similar to many Dell XPS2 users, but I still could not get rid of the blurriness in the tool bars and the minor sparkles on an all white background.
In comparison to the WSXGA screen I used to have on the 9860, I'd have to say that this screen falls short in quality despite its higher resolution. Although the colors on this screen is very good, the colors on the WSXGA still seemed a little more true, and richer in depth. This is probably due to the WSXGA screen being a glossy type. However, the biggest advantage that the WSXGA screen had over this matte screen is that there was absolutely no light leakages and no sparkles whatsoever! And no matter what settings I adjusted this screen to, it still fell short of the WSXGA's quality.
So, needless to say, this baby is going back, and I'm going to give the WUXGA glossy screen a shot next.
Sorry for the long post, but I hope you found this helpful.
That is the main reason I RMA'D my 9880. I am also geting the GLOSSY WUXGA! Also the 670 cpu!
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