I recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron 9300 and quicky became disappointed with the image quality when browsing the web. As I am a web developer this is extremely important for me. Here are the specs:

 

Pentium M 1.86Ghz

512MB Ram

128MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300

60GB 7200 RPM HDD

17" 1920 x 1200 Display

 

I am running @ full resolution (1920x1200), yet all images viewed with IE6 look extremely blocky / Pixelated. I've tried a number of things including changing th DPI from 120 back to 96 but nothing seems to help. I also noticed that Internet Explorer CSS Filters are not rendered very well either and any text on them looks smudged. Many of the sites I work on make extensive use of css filters and this issue makes it very difficult to judge whether the page is rendering correctly. When I access the same pages on my old laptop, the filters and images look fine. My gut tells me it's video driver related, but I guess it could also be something with IE6. I can't find any IE settings besides "Smart image dithering" which doesn't seem to do anything noticable.

 

I took some screenshots of the Dell homepage and one of my websites. I used photoshop to create hi-res images. Any image quality issues you might notice is exactly what I see @ 1920x1200 and not due to any image compression while creating the screenshots (unless you're viewing this with a 9300 like mine!).

 

 

Note how pixelated all of the images look. Now here is the login page of one of my websites:

 

 

As you can see, it's all messed up. Notice that the username & password labels & inputs are nice & crisp, but the lightblue background box which uses the css opactiy filter to make it slightly transparent is all smudged. Also the background should look like evenly spaced pin-stripes, but they are all messed up. Here's what it looks like on every other machine I tried it on:

 

 

way better! Anyhow, please help.

 

Thanks,

-Nub