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| 1150937 | 2010-11-07 20:42:00 | In the good old days you could easily enough pick out a laptop with a nice 1440x900 or even 1680x1050 screen (my current laptop). I am now looking for a new laptop as mine has run into a motherboard fault. Everything I look at seems to be 1366x768. What an awful resolution! 1280x800 I find extremely annoying due to the lack of vertical pixels, so obviously 768 will be even worse. Does anyone know of any model I may have missed? Preferably Asus or Toshiba, Core i5, 14" to 15.6" screen. Budget was $1500 but may have to be stretched.... I am willing to part with the beloved 16:10, so 1600x900 would be suitable. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 1150938 | 2010-11-07 20:46:00 | LOL, I hate the big resolution laptops, the text pitch is far too small for me.....!! If I need more real estate, I plug in an external monitor..... Anyway, HP business laptops have the big resolutions if thats what you are after! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1150939 | 2010-11-07 21:36:00 | Asus' G51Jx series support up to 1920x1080 on their 15.6" LCD - depending on the specific model. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1150940 | 2010-11-07 22:21:00 | Ended up grabbing an HP Elitebook 6930P off TradeMe. $1000, Core 2 Duo 2.53GHz, 14" 1440x900 display. It has 1.5yrs international warranty remaining so should be fairly safe. Will chuck 4GB RAM and a 500GB HDD in there and it should be a fairly decent machine. Thanks people. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 1150941 | 2010-11-07 22:57:00 | Most 16x9 15.6" laptop screens are around 768p, but you can get 16x9 15.6" 1080p laptops if you look hard. I was looking at one, for around $1000, but chose the 768p because it had higher hardware specs for my budget. | jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1150942 | 2010-11-12 02:28:00 | I know this thread's finished, but for interests sake one option is to buy a laptop with the specs you need then upgrade the panel. Hi-res panels are not expensive and the swap only involves the panel and (usually) the LCD cable; makes it more affordable than buying a laptop with a hi-res panel. | Configra (16000) | ||
| 1150943 | 2010-11-12 05:35:00 | I know this thread's finished, but for interests sake one option is to buy a laptop with the specs you need then upgrade the panel. Hi-res panels are not expensive and the swap only involves the panel and (usually) the LCD cable; makes it more affordable than buying a laptop with a hi-res panel. Making sure, ofcourse, that the laptop's gpu can handle the higher resolution. |
jareemon (5207) | ||
| 1150944 | 2010-11-14 04:50:00 | Making sure, ofcourse, that the laptop's gpu can handle the higher resolution . Indeed . With most new laptops there's no issue (even in the sub $1000 mark, bar some of the intel ones like the 852GME that tops out at 1600x1200) but naturally you'd check the specs before buying anything . We've done a few low-mid (under $1300) Pavilions and Inspirons with no issues, and it's certainly a lot nicer looking at 1920x1080 than 1366x768 (provided your eyes are good!) :) |
Configra (16000) | ||
| 1150945 | 2010-11-14 09:09:00 | 1440x900 is probably the most 'normal' or desktop-like resolution you'll get on a laptop! The unusual resolutions will seem funny at first, but you'll get used to it. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1150946 | 2010-11-14 10:27:00 | 1440x900 is probably the most 'normal' or desktop-like resolution you'll get on a laptop! The unusual resolutions will seem funny at first, but you'll get used to it. 1440x900 is a 16x10 resolution, 1366x768 and 1080p are 16x9. have a look at this en.wikipedia.org Configra, have you done many of these screen replacements? Have you found the laptops' graphics sufficient for the 1080p screens? |
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