Screen Resolution

Bananna man

Hi,

I got the Dell Precision M90 today and so far have been well impressed. One problem though is the screen resolution, its default is a whopping 1920 x 1200 on a 17" screen so everything is really small looking. Text is really small and webpages look like like your looking at them from across the room.

I have loads of screen resolution options below this but when you scale down you lose the sharpness and this is no good as im a web designer. Is it possible to scale down without losing the crispness or is it just to do with the screen i have with it?

Thanks

ethernet

For the sake of your eyes, I'd change the resolution to what is should be. The higher resolution is great but small text is a killer.

How is the monitor connected? VGA [blue connector] or DVI [white or black]? The best quality connection is the DVI.

Bananna man

I dont have a monitor connected, just using the laptop LCD.

leeroybrown

The image quality when scaled is very much dependent on the screen. No LCD will do this perfectly and very few do it extremely well. As you work with images colour is obviously important to you and it's one of the things that can be quite badly affected by interpolation when using a non-native resolution. I use a Dell 2005FPW which interpolates extremely well (I rarely use it non-native anyway) but most other LCD screens that I have used haven't come anywhere close in quality.

One thing I'll say is to adjust your font sizes up slightly and give it a little bit of time. The workflow on a high resolution widescreen LCD takes some getting used to, especially if you are used to using your browser across the full screen. When I got the 2005FPW one of the first things I ended up doing was stopping using the full screen width for my web browser which got rid of all the wasted white space and any misgiving I had.

Bananna man

I heard from someone that if you set it to a resolution of half the native resolution your pixels wont be affected. He said he downloaded an add on for his graphics driver before which gave he loads more screen resolution options. I'll have to get googling on it.

Also, for some reason IE seems to be magnifying evertything for some reason. When i view a page in Firefox everything works as expected but with IE everything is bigger and some webpages dont view correctly. Doesnt matter what resolution im using..... what in the hell is all this about????

Saruman

Again that can be the text size in Internet explorer. Try decreasing it.

ethernet

Bananna man wrote:

I dont have a monitor connected, just using the laptop LCD.

Sorry for misreading your original post. If you're a Firefox user, here's a nice little add on you might like. One feature it has is to scale the browser window and allow you to see how pages look at different resolutions.

extra-ordinary_

Go to - Display Properties/Apperance/Effects/Use The Following Method to smooth edges of screen fonts, and select 'clear type' in the drop down box and make sure the box beside is ticked. (there's a whole procedure to this you can find if you google 'clear type')

Also to make your font a little more readable, go to Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/General/DPI setting - and set to 120.

This might help.

BostonB

I've a Dell 9400 with the same screen and res 1920x1200. I'm using DPI of 106 which was a good compromise IMO. 120 looked silly and messed with some of the dialogs.