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HD screen

  • 25-10-2009 10:26am
    #1
    FishTaco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    Is it worth paying more to get a fully HD (1920x1080) screen, or stick with the standard 1366x768 screen in a laptop? What would I have to be doing to notice a difference?


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  • #2
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    You get more desktop space - for example if you were editing a large photo you could see more of it on screen at once, without scrolling around. Because the pixels are closer together, the image would be sharper (compared to a 1366x screen of the same size). Its important for programmers, photographers etc, but to be honest the average Joe just doing some web browsing might not care about the extra screen space.

    If you are watching a blu-ray, you can get exact 1:1 scaling of whats on a disc. So you'd be getting the maximum sharpness from the film. Whereas with a 1366x screen, it'll have to scale the image down and lose some resolution. It'll still look great (a lot of people with 'high-def' TVs just have 1366x768 screens), just not as great.

    On the flip side, everything gets smaller. Text, icons, etc. If you have trouble seeing things, you can counteract that by increasing DPI or font size etc, but its not always ideal - especially with older programs, you can get a mish-mash of font sizes and things that don't fit into windows properly.


  • #3
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    watching HD movies? doing Photoshop or other graphics design? those would be the two main reasons for me.

    higher resolutions will also increase the workspace on a desktop, but icons and text can become too small to read for me without alteration so i wouldn't bother with it for that.

    lol, beaten by the chile'


  • #4
    FishTaco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭FishTaco


    Thanks lads


  • #5
    Ricky91t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    If this is for a 15.6 dell you're looking at,I'd recommend the 1366x768 it's perfect for me anyway!


  • #6
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    1920 may be ok when at the laptop, but if a little further back using an external keyboard it's a bit small.

    windows is not very good at dpi changes, photos and images on web sites don't get bigger so if you do a lot of browsing then you may have a lot of empty space on the screen


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  • #7
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    photos and images on web sites don't get bigger so if you do a lot of browsing then you may have a lot of empty space on the screen

    that's actually due to poor website design more than anything else. CSS allows for perfectly good scalable sites, but nobody seems to bother with it properly.


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