Higher resolution - WXGA

The size of fonts on screen tends to decrease as the resolution increases, so there's a tradeoff to make.

 

Probably the WSXGA is the best screen for most people.DVD viewing would be fine on all, the differance is viewing the desktop and text, where it gets blocky and not as crisp as you go down to WXGA.

5150
Mobile P4 3.06 HT
64mb Nvidia
768 Ram
UXGA Samsung
Hitachi 7k60
1300 Wireless
DVD+RW NEC 5100a
Bios A29
XP Pro

Message Edited by PINE on 06-01-2004 08:29 PM

I got the WUXGA in the 9100 and the size of the fonts was too small for me to read. It didn't help to increase the DPI setting either as that caused problems with AOL (i.e. when I increased the font size to a readable DPI, the fonts were too big to fit into my AOL welcome screen and also some of the fonts in AOL were then a bit blurry to read). It also didn't help that much to lower the resolution. Lowering the resolution in order to get things bigger and to a point where they would be readable resulted in an inferior picture quality. The lower you go on the resolution,  the more picture quality decreases. I returned it and am planning to get one with the WXGA. If you want to be able to readable, quality picture, you should go with the WXGA. You'll also save some money.

Thanks for the info!!!!

I forgot the "standard" XGA. Any "need" to go past this?

Well, standard XGA may not be avilable on a widescreen laptop....but for most users I would say that WSXGA and WXGA are fine, but it all depends on your uses.