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Laptop screens?
Looking at a new laptop to replace my OLD pentium 133 thinkpad. Mainly just
looking for something to do web surfing but also would like something to dump files from my camera onto when on the road and burn backup disks. Be nice to have a good enough screen to check out the quality to see if I need to reshoot. Which laptop models seem to have decent LCD screens. I've really enjoyed my thinkpad and like the way they control the cursor (I don't like touchpads much) but screen quality is more important that this to me right now. TIA. -- Stacey |
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Stacey wrote:
Looking at a new laptop to replace my OLD pentium 133 thinkpad. Mainly just looking for something to do web surfing but also would like something to dump files from my camera onto when on the road and burn backup disks. Be nice to have a good enough screen to check out the quality to see if I need to reshoot. Which laptop models seem to have decent LCD screens. I've really enjoyed my thinkpad and like the way they control the cursor (I don't like touchpads much) but screen quality is more important that this to me right now. TIA. Some LCD screens are better with images, some with text. My HP Laptop has a good LCD that looks good with either. Still, the viewing angle is narrow, which some consider a definite advantage since you can work without having the person next to you able to read the screen easily. -- Ron Hunter |
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"Ron Hunter" wrote in message ... Stacey wrote: Looking at a new laptop to replace my OLD pentium 133 thinkpad. Mainly just looking for something to do web surfing but also would like something to dump files from my camera onto when on the road and burn backup disks. Be nice to have a good enough screen to check out the quality to see if I need to reshoot. Which laptop models seem to have decent LCD screens. I've really enjoyed my thinkpad and like the way they control the cursor (I don't like touchpads much) but screen quality is more important that this to me right now. TIA. Some LCD screens are better with images, some with text. My HP Laptop has a good LCD that looks good with either. Still, the viewing angle is narrow, which some consider a definite advantage since you can work without having the person next to you able to read the screen easily. depending on budget this is a very open ended Question.. but (remember I'm in the UK, so models may vary) I recently got a Dell with separate graphics, and decent screen (higher than usual resolution) purely for a camera dump and view mechanism, and its brilliant, considering whole laptop cost les than my TFT monitor on my maim computer (and the resolutions better) I really cant complain!! I notice here (in UK) that the screen I got is now only available on the top of the range Laptop from dell now (looking at their page) will recommend that you do get a separate graphics card (so many now use a integrated graphics and that "shares" system memory, id also get a minimum of 1gb of ram (to handle the imaging software) but of course that's just what I consider good.. Mark |
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"Stacey" wrote in message
... Looking at a new laptop to replace my OLD pentium 133 thinkpad. Mainly just looking for something to do web surfing but also would like something to dump files from my camera onto when on the road and burn backup disks. Be nice to have a good enough screen to check out the quality to see if I need to reshoot. Which laptop models seem to have decent LCD screens. I've really enjoyed my thinkpad and like the way they control the cursor (I don't like touchpads much) but screen quality is more important that this to me right now. TIA. You should go to an office store (Staples, Office Depot) or a place like Best Buy or Circuit City where you can view computers. The new laptops with BrightView technology have a huge WOW factor. -- Tara |
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Stacey wrote:
Looking at a new laptop to replace my OLD pentium 133 thinkpad. Mainly just looking for something to do web surfing but also would like something to dump files from my camera onto when on the road and burn backup disks. Be nice to have a good enough screen to check out the quality to see if I need to reshoot. Which laptop models seem to have decent LCD screens. I've really enjoyed my thinkpad and like the way they control the cursor (I don't like touchpads much) but screen quality is more important that this to me right now. TIA. The newer ThinkPads have an excellent LCD screen that I've used for exactly what you're doing with you old one. Depends how much money you want to spend. |
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Gaderian wrote:
The newer ThinkPads have an excellent LCD screen that I've used for exactly what you're doing with you old one. Depends how much money you want to spend. I was looking at the new thinkpads and see they have some higher rez option 15 inch screens that should work great for this. Not cheap but what product that is good is! -- Stacey |
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