Laptop screens?

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Looking at a new laptop to replace my OLD pentium 133 thinkpad. Mainly just
looking for something to do web surfing but also would like something to
dump files from my camera onto when on the road and burn backup disks. Be
nice to have a good enough screen to check out the quality to see if I need
to reshoot. Which laptop models seem to have decent LCD screens. I've
really enjoyed my thinkpad and like the way they control the cursor (I
don't like touchpads much) but screen quality is more important that this
to me right now. TIA.
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Stacey

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"Ron Hunter" <rphunter@charter.net> wrote in message
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> Stacey wrote:
> > Looking at a new laptop to replace my OLD pentium 133 thinkpad. Mainly
just
> > looking for something to do web surfing but also would like something to
> > dump files from my camera onto when on the road and burn backup disks.
Be
> > nice to have a good enough screen to check out the quality to see if I
need
> > to reshoot. Which laptop models seem to have decent LCD screens. I've
> > really enjoyed my thinkpad and like the way they control the cursor (I
> > don't like touchpads much) but screen quality is more important that
this
> > to me right now. TIA.
>
> Some LCD screens are better with images, some with text. My HP Laptop
> has a good LCD that looks good with either. Still, the viewing angle is
> narrow, which some consider a definite advantage since you can work
> without having the person next to you able to read the screen easily.
>
depending on budget this is a very open ended Question.. but (remember I'm
in the UK, so models may vary) I recently got a Dell with separate graphics,
and decent screen (higher than usual resolution) purely for a camera dump
and view mechanism, and its brilliant, considering whole laptop cost les
than my TFT monitor on my maim computer (and the resolutions better) I
really cant complain!!

I notice here (in UK) that the screen I got is now only available on the top
of the range Laptop from dell now (looking at their page)

will recommend that you do get a separate graphics card (so many now use a
integrated graphics and that "shares" system memory, id also get a minimum
of 1gb of ram (to handle the imaging software)

but of course that's just what I consider good..

Mark

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Stacey wrote:
> Looking at a new laptop to replace my OLD pentium 133 thinkpad.
> Mainly just looking for something to do web surfing but also would
> like something to dump files from my camera onto when on the road and
> burn backup disks. Be nice to have a good enough screen to check out
> the quality to see if I need to reshoot. Which laptop models seem to
> have decent LCD screens. I've really enjoyed my thinkpad and like the
> way they control the cursor (I don't like touchpads much) but screen
> quality is more important that this to me right now. TIA.

The newer ThinkPads have an excellent LCD screen that I've used for exactly
what you're doing with you old one. Depends how much money you want to
spend.

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The latest super-bright laptop screens such as those found on the Sony
FS series notebooks are worth looking into.

Most laptops typically have a brightness of about 150-200cd/m2 of tested
brightness. That means they're 'dim' looking vs. most LCD panels for
the desktop, and even harder to see in mixed or bright outdoor lighting.

The Sony FS series (along with some other brands that have super-bright
screens - eg. Sharp) have a 400cd/m2 or so tested brigthness (Japanese
PC User computer magazine results among others). As a result, they're
spectacularly easy to view and use indoors and out, and are daylight
readable under direct bright sunlight.

Highly recommeded as they're almost plasma-like.

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You can upgrade those models to higher resolution screens - this will
let you see more of an image on screen at once.

But, keep in mind that a jump from the 12xx by xxx resolution to a 16xx
by xxx resolution screen or a 19xx by xxx screen will significantly
shrink the fonts on your screen!

Even after you've tuned the display properties to 'enlarge' the fonts by
120-150+%, some program menus and text will simply not display properly
when enlarged like this -- you'll be living with tiny fonts or large
fonts you can't properly read if you're eyesight isn't so good.

I'd definitely test and see before buying as this can be a 'big' regret!
(here, sometimes it is simply easier to stick with the default 12xx by
xxx display)

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