I just bought a dell latitude d820, and I have exactly the problems you tell about.
I also have an old inspiron 8100, that works great to any resolution and to any dpi settings.
the new one works perfect with a wuxga+ (or whatever...) display, of 16:10 and 1680x... pixels, and with 96 dpi, that makes all text in the web to look very small and difficult to read.
As soon as you change the resolution, as it would be normal, to 120dpi, to see everything bigger on the screen, but with high resolution (that would be the idea of a screen with many pixels!) it just makes the images you see with your browser to look VERY bad, that means blurred, worst than you would look at them with an old 800x600 display.
the texts look good in the browser, but the images become blurred and distorted.
so I am thinking of changing the dell, or requesting another display... it is quite unpleasant and absurd! (to have a high resolution and to see everything just smaller, not denser!!!)
In fact dell still produces displays of 4:3, 15 inch, for example look at the "Latitude" series, there is one model that has a 15' display.
it is quite difficult to say if the new 16:10 display is better.
You can read diverse ideas about that in dell's support database. look for example at the support at http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=FC55E86F0611BEE3E030030ABD620A8C&journalid=D61D5E2660FE11DBB8D4A3385A61B6DB&l=en&s=dhs#en#us
where you can find some explanations about these problems.
anyway, I found a relative solution for the blurred images, you can change a certain setting of the dell quickstart software to "do not scale images, for Internet Explorer", and some of the problems occuring when setting 120 dpi for the display, dissapear.
But it is dissapointing that you have to search some hours to find out alone something that should be arranged in advance in the best way by microsoft (windows settings) and dell (hardware settings and explanations).
you are right ! it's sad to seey that we have to look around in order to find how to fix DELL problems !
about the latitude, they don't sell it anymore here in belgium :(
i found an asus F3J for the same price with an ati x1600 which is twice fatser than the x1400 in the e1505. so i will call dell monday to ask if it's possible to make a discount on the e1505 and on the XPS M1710.
I have a new Inspiron 1505 with a high resolution screen that I am in the process of sending back because of this problem. I've never seen anything like it before. Beautiful text and any graphic looks blurred.
Where do I find the setting change exactly . . . if this works out for me it would really make life less distressing with the Dell support people.
Hi! you should have a small icon on the taskbar, somewhere next to the clock, that is called "dell quickset", with a blue Q sign. Double click it, then you get a window with several settings for your dell, there you clic display. In the display menu you have a setting called "Internet Explorer scaling" that you should click OFF! But you can also use firefox, the alternative browser, it does not have this effect of wrong-scaled images like the IE.
Generally, it seems to be a problem with the browsers (images displayed by them) and with the icons (especially those on the window taskbar, the small ones). From some reason, they work JUST for the original density (DPI) they were drawn for. As soon as you heighten the density, windows tries to scale them up, and produces the ugly effects that you see, because they are zoomed.
If you do not scale them up, the text will be bigger (i presume you use 120 dpi text) and the images in IE and of the icons on the taskbar will be smaller, but correctly displayed.
Curious enough, I didn't have this problem with my old Inspiron 8100 (from 2002 or so), that has also a high resolution screen.
And Dell does not explain what to do. I found it here on the forum.
I am also thinking of changing the computer, but I do not have time... :)
The question would be: does it happen JUST with Dell, or is it a general windows problem, combined with high res screens in TFT?
@horia_m wrote:
Hi! you should have a small icon on the taskbar, somewhere next to the clock, that is called "dell quickset", with a blue Q sign. Double click it, then you get a window with several settings for your dell, there you clic display. In the display menu you have a setting called "Internet Explorer scaling" that you should click OFF! But you can also use firefox, the alternative browser, it does not have this effect of wrong-scaled images like the IE.
Generally, it seems to be a problem with the browsers (images displayed by them) and with the icons (especially those on the window taskbar, the small ones). From some reason, they work JUST for the original density (DPI) they were drawn for. As soon as you heighten the density, windows tries to scale them up, and produces the ugly effects that you see, because they are zoomed.
If you do not scale them up, the text will be bigger (i presume you use 120 dpi text) and the images in IE and of the icons on the taskbar will be smaller, but correctly displayed.
Curious enough, I didn't have this problem with my old Inspiron 8100 (from 2002 or so), that has also a high resolution screen.
And Dell does not explain what to do. I found it here on the forum.
I am also thinking of changing the computer, but I do not have time... :)
The question would be: does it happen JUST with Dell, or is it a general windows problem, combined with high res screens in TFT?
greetings from vienna!
I think what happened is that people complained too much about small text/icons/images that Dell put in a utility set to enlarge images/icons by default to satisfy them. It's a case where no matter what they do, they can't keep everyone happy.
I have never had any problems with blurred images, but for various reasons one of the first things I did was do a fresh reinstall of Windows on the machine. (The two main reasons: Resizing NTFS is a pain, and I wanted to repartition to dual-boot Linux, and Dell Windows preinstalls are notoriously bad, the two of those together meant an immediate nuke and repave of Windows.)
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Message Edited by yabadabado on 10-21-2006 06:24 AM
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it is quite difficult to say if the new 16:10 display is better.
You can read diverse ideas about that in dell's support database. look for example at the support at http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=FC55E86F0611BEE3E030030ABD620A8C&journalid=D61D5E2660FE11DBB8D4A3385A61B6DB&l=en&s=dhs#en#us
where you can find some explanations about these problems.
anyway, I found a relative solution for the blurred images, you can change a certain setting of the dell quickstart software to "do not scale images, for Internet Explorer", and some of the problems occuring when setting 120 dpi for the display, dissapear.
But it is dissapointing that you have to search some hours to find out alone something that should be arranged in advance in the best way by microsoft (windows settings) and dell (hardware settings and explanations).
yabadabado
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October 22nd, 2006 14:00
i found an asus F3J for the same price with an ati x1600 which is twice fatser than the x1400 in the e1505. so i will call dell monday to ask if it's possible to make a discount on the e1505 and on the XPS M1710.
thanks for your answers and link my dear ;)
yaba
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horia_m
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Generally, it seems to be a problem with the browsers (images displayed by them) and with the icons (especially those on the window taskbar, the small ones). From some reason, they work JUST for the original density (DPI) they were drawn for. As soon as you heighten the density, windows tries to scale them up, and produces the ugly effects that you see, because they are zoomed.
If you do not scale them up, the text will be bigger (i presume you use 120 dpi text) and the images in IE and of the icons on the taskbar will be smaller, but correctly displayed.
Curious enough, I didn't have this problem with my old Inspiron 8100 (from 2002 or so), that has also a high resolution screen.
And Dell does not explain what to do. I found it here on the forum.
I am also thinking of changing the computer, but I do not have time... :)
The question would be: does it happen JUST with Dell, or is it a general windows problem, combined with high res screens in TFT?
greetings from vienna!
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October 23rd, 2006 12:00
I think what happened is that people complained too much about small text/icons/images that Dell put in a utility set to enlarge images/icons by default to satisfy them. It's a case where no matter what they do, they can't keep everyone happy.
I have never had any problems with blurred images, but for various reasons one of the first things I did was do a fresh reinstall of Windows on the machine. (The two main reasons: Resizing NTFS is a pain, and I wanted to repartition to dual-boot Linux, and Dell Windows preinstalls are notoriously bad, the two of those together meant an immediate nuke and repave of Windows.)
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