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March 1st, 2004 01:00
2001FP Question
Hello,
I just purchased a top of the line XPS system, and have chosen the 2001FP as my monitor based on some good feedback on this board and other reviews. My question is about the 1600 x 1200 resolution. I have always had a 17" monitor running at 1024x768, so the text has been fairly large and easy to read. Will the fonts and icons be really small at 1600 x 1200, so much so that it will be hard to read text, web pages, etc? I am looking forward to more real-estate on the desktop to work with, but am concerned with really tiny fonts...
Any input would be appreciated.
TIA.
Jay
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Joe Average
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March 1st, 2004 10:00
Your questions will all get subjective answers. What is small to me may not be small to you and vice versa. However, assuming that you are using a Windows derivative the OS is 100% customizable. If default 1600 x 1200 is too small for you then change it. Default 1600 x 1200 was in fact too small for me. I set everything to 125% of normal and it looks great. In fact my 70 year old father has no problem seeing it. In short don’t worry about it you can set Windows to exactly what you want to see. That’s one of the reasons its called a "personal" computer. You can set it to your "personal" tastes.
talmy
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March 1st, 2004 14:00
One problem area are websites that are pixel based rather than self adjusting. Sites such as these deserve an angry letter (not everyone runs 800x600!) but have a solution in the Opera browser which has a built-in magnifier.
One thing you really don't want to do is run an LCD monitor at reduced resolution -- they get blurry especially with text. Exception -- the 2001FP will run fine at 800x600 which is an exact submultiple of the resolution.
Oh, the ability to personalize is not limited to Windows. Linux will do it too.
warpdrive
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March 1st, 2004 17:00
You're going to indeed find the text smaller, but I have no problems with text size on my 2001FP.
Message Edited by warpdrive on 03-01-2004 01:28 PM
Seventy
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March 3rd, 2004 22:00
Adding to this, yes what you see can be subjective. But size and the actual rendering and display of type (fonts) is also involving you have the fonts installed, and the monitor display properties set to what suits your needs. Many people not realize the stuff they are looking at that the computer is more or less subsituting the font with something else in the font folder (browsers are a good example - because how a site is designed with fonts other than the "official web fonts" does not mean you see what was intended to be displayed). Likewise how well a type displays is also inherent of the design of the particular face, some look very good at small point (size), while others look messy and difficult to read/view.
We run our 2001FP at 1600x1200 24/7 and we use a good video card too the ATI 128 9800 Pro - and we make sure that whatever type we are using that we do have the font type in question.
Finally how you set up your display properties will also affect your experience of what and how you see things - such as anti-alisasing of type, greeking of type below size of x/y/z etc.
Just some additional things to keep in mind when you are asking what is in reality a rather complex question technically and subjectively from the user's experience.
deepcscuba
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March 3rd, 2004 22:00
Thanks for all of your responses! I just changed my order with Dell from the 19"FP to the 20"FP. I am looking forward to a lot more real-estate than my current 17" CRT allows. It sounds like I can do some tweaking with the fonts and icons if they are too small at 1600x1200 native.
Thanks again for the help.
Jay