Text issues with WUXGA?

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I'm looking to purchase a 17" notebook, but what's stopping me is the choice
between WSXGA and WUXGA. I'd like to get the WUXGA (1920x1200), but after
seeing what this looked like in XP, I'm leery. I've heard that Vista handles
the display of text more efficiently then XP. Is this true?
 
Wendy Kelly Budd said:
I'm looking to purchase a 17" notebook, but what's stopping me is the
choice
between WSXGA and WUXGA. I'd like to get the WUXGA (1920x1200), but after
seeing what this looked like in XP, I'm leery. I've heard that Vista
handles
the display of text more efficiently then XP. Is this true?
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I've been using a 1920x1200 screen for more than a year, in both XP and in
Vista. I don't understand your concern for "seeing what this looked like in
XP". It looked just fine to me in XP and it looks good on my new PC running
Vista. The only thing I can think of is that the resolution is a little
high for a 17inch screen (if its not set up properly everything is going to
be tiny). Could you maybe give us all a little more detail on your
concerns...
 
Wendy,

I don't think we're talking about a Vista vs XP issue.

I'm using 1680x1050 on a 22" widescreen on Vista. It doesn't look any
different than it did on XP.

However, if I tried to put it on a resolution higher than the 'native'
resolution of my monitor, it would look real wierd.
I did a great deal of research on monitors while I was looking, and saw no
17" LCDs that would do 1920x1200.

I also researched notebooks, as I was buying one. Most 17" notebooks had a
'native' resolution of 1440x900.
You can 'overdrive' them to higher resolution, but they look real bad.

In fact, I didn't see any under 24" that would. (Now, that would look nice)



John
 
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