You might be a little disappointed, depending on the websites you visit. Personally, I've found that setting my DPI to Large Fonts has made text viewable, but some internet sites with heavy graphic content can be pretty ugly when you force them to re-size their fonts.
For example, the "tabs" at the top of this page don't fit the text properly when I view them at my preferred size settings on my UXGA screen - the text goes over the edges, and doesn't look great. Many websites are still optimized for 800x600, which makes them pretty small on a 1600x1200 or 1920x1200 screen. I can't wait until we're no longer catering to (ancient) 800x600 screens... even 1024x780 would be an improvement!
I don't find any problems using my laptop for working in Word or Excel. In Word, I just use the zoom if the document doesn't take up as much space as I'd like, and there ends up being space for the task pane, which is nice. And in Excel, I always need more space, so it works really well.
On the whole, I love my screen, even with the slight problems with web browsing. And the first time I fired up Warcraft III on it at 1600x1200, I was blown away. My next laptop will definitely need to have a UXGA screen.
Great sounds good then. So have you tried flight sim on your screen, I am really excited to put flght sim 2004 and see what that is like. Should b really really interesting just need a force feed joystrick.
Games are made for High Resolution therefore dont use small fonts so for games your lucky with the UXGA screen try the game in its highest availible res. The UXGA just like the SXGA has such a higher resolution than the XGA. So good infact with my 600m and SXGA i would never go back to XGA cause the fonts are too big and im using normal fonts in 1400x1050 so enjoy!!!
Remember Large Fonts is always an option dell with Auto Enable the Large Fonts for when you get it.
Well, first off, for word processing fonts will be no smaller so long as you set the page to fit the window, but they wiil be much clearer and sharper thanks to the higher DPI. As for web browsing, I think once you're used to it you'll be the same as the rest of us - ie, you'll think an XGA is pathetic for web browsing.
When I first started using my UXGA I was taken back by the small size of everything. I found that if I went to the advanced display settings to boost the Windows DPI to 150%, then everything looked much nicer. (I use a docking station, so I am a little ways back from the screen.)
Using the 150% DPI works great most of the time (over 90%). Sometimes an application will not scale properly and it will render the screen incorrectly. For examply when using Quickbooks, some screens have their radio buttons malformed. I think this has to do with the API's that were used to author the software did not fully support making changes to the default Windows DPI setting.
Anyway, this is just a minor annoyance and it has not prevented me from using any application. I suspect over time, as more people start using the increased DPI setting due to the ever increasing screen resolution, that applications will scale better to adjustments made to this setting. Like I said more than 90% of my applications work fine at this setting and they render screens that look exteremely sharp.
If there are any Windows developers out there who can comment on the percise cause of screen rendering problems due to changing the default Windows DPI setting - I would be very interested to here the technical details of this issue.
so is it possible to make the inernet application fit the screen. Or due to the high res it will just fit the left side of the screen. Is it not possible for software to be developed that compinsates and allows smooth viewing of documents
mattcowger
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spiked_martini
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February 24th, 2004 19:00
You might be a little disappointed, depending on the websites you visit. Personally, I've found that setting my DPI to Large Fonts has made text viewable, but some internet sites with heavy graphic content can be pretty ugly when you force them to re-size their fonts.
For example, the "tabs" at the top of this page don't fit the text properly when I view them at my preferred size settings on my UXGA screen - the text goes over the edges, and doesn't look great. Many websites are still optimized for 800x600, which makes them pretty small on a 1600x1200 or 1920x1200 screen. I can't wait until we're no longer catering to (ancient) 800x600 screens... even 1024x780 would be an improvement!
I don't find any problems using my laptop for working in Word or Excel. In Word, I just use the zoom if the document doesn't take up as much space as I'd like, and there ends up being space for the task pane, which is nice. And in Excel, I always need more space, so it works really well.
On the whole, I love my screen, even with the slight problems with web browsing. And the first time I fired up Warcraft III on it at 1600x1200, I was blown away. My next laptop will definitely need to have a UXGA screen.
Jimmyshoes
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February 24th, 2004 21:00
Sterlin254
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February 24th, 2004 22:00
Games are made for High Resolution therefore dont use small fonts so for games your lucky with the UXGA screen try the game in its highest availible res. The UXGA just like the SXGA has such a higher resolution than the XGA. So good infact with my 600m and SXGA i would never go back to XGA cause the fonts are too big and im using normal fonts in 1400x1050 so enjoy!!!
Remember Large Fonts is always an option dell with Auto Enable the Large Fonts for when you get it.
PYROTAK
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February 25th, 2004 11:00
you think you can get rid of the spaced IN BETWEEN EVERY LINE so that it is not 30 lines long....kthanks
if you use firefox .8 you should have no problems with font scaling.
firefox >>>>>> ie anyways.
caboosemoose
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February 25th, 2004 13:00
anettis
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February 25th, 2004 16:00
When I first started using my UXGA I was taken back by the small size of everything. I found that if I went to the advanced display settings to boost the Windows DPI to 150%, then everything looked much nicer. (I use a docking station, so I am a little ways back from the screen.)
Using the 150% DPI works great most of the time (over 90%). Sometimes an application will not scale properly and it will render the screen incorrectly. For examply when using Quickbooks, some screens have their radio buttons malformed. I think this has to do with the API's that were used to author the software did not fully support making changes to the default Windows DPI setting.
Anyway, this is just a minor annoyance and it has not prevented me from using any application. I suspect over time, as more people start using the increased DPI setting due to the ever increasing screen resolution, that applications will scale better to adjustments made to this setting. Like I said more than 90% of my applications work fine at this setting and they render screens that look exteremely sharp.
If there are any Windows developers out there who can comment on the percise cause of screen rendering problems due to changing the default Windows DPI setting - I would be very interested to here the technical details of this issue.
Message Edited by anettis on 02-25-2004 01:26 PM
Jimmyshoes
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February 27th, 2004 22:00
so is it possible to make the inernet application fit the screen. Or due to the high res it will just fit the left side of the screen. Is it not possible for software to be developed that compinsates and allows smooth viewing of documents
James