Wide screens are good mainly for watching movies. When I bought my laptop PC last year I avoided wide screens and got a 4:3 aspect screen. Most things that I view e.g. web pages and e-mail are higher than they are wide. If you play games pixel response is important. If you do image editing things such as contrast ratio and luminance are important. Keep in mind that LCDs work well at only their native resolution. A high resolution dislply will be sharp, but images and text with some software e.g. browsers may be too small. Features such as crystal brite, ultrabrite, trubrite are difficult to compare as most are proprietary and may vary from model to model. The best way to compare displays is to look at them under the conditions you will be using it; not always easy to do since most are either in a store under florescent lamps or are not accessible e.g. Dell.

Jack Bruss wrote:
>
> My wife and I just made a deal - I upgrade my desktop and she gets a laptop.
> So, now, as I have just ordered my upgrade components from Newegg, I am
> researching laptops. I've got a good idea of the processor type, memory,
> hard drive she needs, but I don't know how to evaluate the displays of the
> various laptops, and the display is the most important thing to my wife.
>
> Is there anything in the specs that I should be paying most attention to in
> order to get the best display? I have seen WXGA, XGA, TFT, wide XGA+,
> SXGA+, crystal brite, ultrabrite, trubrite, etc., but there seems to be
> nothing quantifiable about the displays that I can use to compare them from
> one unit to another.
>
> Also, most laptops seem to tout "wide" screens or at least wide screen
> support. If my wife is not going to be watching movies on the laptop (she
> isn't), should I stay away from "wide" screens?
>
> Any advice will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jack

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