Ronin and Titanium.......do you mind checking who manufactured your screen (Samsung, LG, etc.?)

How is that done?

Go to the device manager, go to the monitor tab, go to details tab; and it will say after the display/"XXXXX". The XXXXX is the maker of your screen. Examples include SEC (Samsung), AUO, LG, etc.

DISPLAY\DEFAULT_MONITOR\5&5F664BF&0&00000100&01&00

Under default monitor properties -> details

Hmmm.......I know for a fact that Powerstrip will tell you -- available at http://downloads.vnunet.com/download...trip/_231.html -- It's a pretty cool program....

You should be able to see who made your screen without it though, I'll figure it out tomorrow when my d620 gets here........

Samsung SEC4457.

thanks for checking.........I hope I get the Samsung too.

so samsung is the good screen? my d620 wxga+ w/ quadro just shipped today so i'll post up a review of the screen when it arrives..

Well.....I got my D620 today and it's got a LG screen, not the Samsung. I can definitely see what people are talking about when the say the screen looks "grainy", especially on white backgrounds. That being said, it doesn't bother me too much.

Also, I wanted to ask you guys with the good displays (Samsung) if you had to pump up the display brightness all the way to get your screen bright enough. I'm not talking about the nvidia settings, just the normal display properties. I had to put it on the maximum setting for it to be acceptable. Please let me know.......

Not necessarily. I can go down two levels have the brightness equivalent to the brightest I had on the Dell D620 with the Intel GMA 950. Now, I remember that the prior configuration had an LG screen.

That sucks that there are potentially different manufacturers since there is such a disparity in screen quality.

haven't received the laptop yet, but i just checked the system configuration using the service tag (under order history). i'm getting the AUO screen.... anyone have any experience with the WXGA+ AUO screen??

No, but let us know what you think of it when you get it please. I might send my LG back if you like it a lot..........

Looking more and more like it might be an issue w/ the LG displays.

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...1#689000059731

good news: laptop came today, 1 day early!

bad news: so i did get the AUO1047 screen as i said earlier and it's got that crappy sparkle effect going on. :sad: also a bit of light leakage on the bottom, but not nearly as bad as the E1405 i returned. tried playing with the brightness and nvidia settings and it still looks grainy on a white background.

so i'm going to go ahead and try to get the samsung screen replacement. what do you guys think would be the best way to go about this?

I don't think there's any way of specifying what screen you get as a replacement..........just pure luck. You just have to cross your fingers and hope they bring you a different model. I will most likely be going through the same ordeal over the next week or two trying to get my LG replaced. Let me know if you have any luck with it..........