PC laptops with screens to Match Apples?

BostonB

Looking around the shops at laptops the other day it seem to be that the quality of the screens on apple laptops was vastly better than any of the windows laptops. Maybe that's because they don't tend to display high end Windows laptop of a similar price points, so I'm not comparing like with like.

Used to be that Sony's were much better than the rest but at the moment they don't really stand out from the pack.

Which windows laptops do you think have great screens.

ED E

If youre talking non ips then its really dependent on model rather than make and up to taste if you like matt/gloss etc. Ive always found business line dells good but not great.

Dannysaurus

There's a fair bit, but they usually come with the higher end and usually business based models like some of the ones on the Lenovo Thinkpad and the HP ProBook series.

Samsung has something similar, with developing their own technology akin to the IPS screens. But you're looking at post E900 prices. The one with a screen that bests even the Macbook Pro's is the Dell XPS (L502X). That's the previous gen XPS 15, though I'm quite certain the current gen's XPS 15 has the same screen.

JacksonHeightsOwn

I saw an Asus n55sl in currys the other day that had fantastic screen clarity. Equal if not better to my now defunct apple macbook pro

nickcave

I think it's crazy that manufacturers load their laptops with 3rd-gen Core-i CPUs, 6GB+ of RAM, etc., with plenty of attention given to the ergonomics and feel of the unit's body and build, only to go and stick an azure-soaked 1366x768 LCD with the most blinkered viewing angle imaginable into it as if nobody cares.

Anyway, from what I gather what you're looking for is a high-contrast OLED and/or WLED screen (not LCD or LED-backlit - the best screens I've seen are WLEDs) and with a screen resolution as high as possible basically... Laptops like this are generally quite expensive but they do exist...

Jarren

That lappy from Dell with WLED should cost less than 800 Euros

http://ecomm.euro.dell.com/dellstore/basket.aspx?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs&itemtype=CFG&details=undefined

OP

I think that weekend trip to a brick&mortar store will be needed to compare screens me thinks.:)

Dannysaurus

nickcave wrote: »

I think it's crazy that manufacturers load their laptops with 3rd-gen Core-i CPUs, 6GB+ of RAM, etc., with plenty of attention given to the ergonomics and feel of the unit's body and build, only to go and stick an azure-soaked 1366x768 LCD with the most blinkered viewing angle imaginable into it as if nobody cares.

Anyway, from what I gather what you're looking for is a high-contrast OLED and/or WLED screen (not LCD or LED-backlit - the best screens I've seen are WLEDs) and with a screen resolution as high as possible basically... Laptops like this are generally quite expensive but they do exist...

Quote. For. ****ing. Truth.

BostonB

+1 one can only agree with that.

I'm coming from an old Dell laptop with a 17" 1920x1200.

Dannysaurus

Ah, when 16:10 were standard. Now they try to pass off the whole "wide screen" crap and charge a premium for something that used to be standard. The thing is, consumers these don't really care as much, nor do they notice xD Or at least the majority of 'em.

As for the link to Dell, not sure about that since there isn't anything to see; Usually Dell kinda caps resolutions at 720p for most of the laptops, bar the fair few like some of the XPS series and maybe 17" Inspirons which have 900p res tops.

kfish2oo2

I've an XPS 15 (L502x) with a 1080p RGB+ monitor, and boy this thing is beautiful. It beats the crap out of my friends Macbook Pros (13inch to 17inch). The pixel density is just about perfect - I wouldn't go any higher on a Windows. Its got really good viewing angles too. The caveat is price: this was €1050 and that was with a pretty hefty leap-day discount. Looking at the Dell site now, they no longer offer 1080p configurations on the XPS 15, but I'm sure they offer them somewhere else.

In general though, laptop monitors are ****. It took me freaking ages to find a laptop with a monitor that does more than ~70% of the Adobe colour gamut (I do a lot of design work, and this beaut does ~95%), and WLED's just don't cut it.

EDIT: The new XPS 15 does indeed have a 1080p monitor, but they start at €1,400.

FGR

The best screen was Dell's XPS 16 RGB Screen. I don't think that's been matched.

Does the new XPS 15 have a gamut rating?

Dannysaurus

FGR wrote: »

The best screen was Dell's XPS 16 RGB Screen. I don't think that's been matched.

Does the new XPS 15 have a gamut rating?

95%, which stands rather well.