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Buying a laptop.. need a good display.. help me!
I'm buying a laptop and need advice for a display.
Max budget around 2000 dollars, pc (not apple mac)... I'll use it mainly for photography and image editing, it's meant to replace the desktop therefore I need a good display which can be calibrated decently. I know the latest mac displays (led backlit) are quite good on this side, but as I told you I can't buy a mac. What about the Dell inspiron 1720 with the High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200) any suggestion? bye luca |
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Buying a laptop.. need a good display.. help me!
On Jan 5, 12:17*pm, Snaggy wrote:
I'm buying a laptop and need advice for a display. Max budget around 2000 dollars, pc (not apple mac)... I'll use it mainly for photography and image editing, it's meant to replace the desktop therefore I need a good display which can be calibrated decently. I know the latest mac displays (led backlit) are quite good on this side, but as I told you I can't buy a mac. What about the Dell inspiron 1720 with the High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200) any suggestion? bye luca I have a dell 17 1920 x 1200, you wont need to calibrate it and the display is as good as you get except for maybe the Led Lcd but I have never compared them. What I see on the screen it prints. |
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Buying a laptop.. need a good display.. help me!
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:17:43 -0800 (PST), Snaggy wrote:
I'm buying a laptop and need advice for a display. Max budget around 2000 dollars, pc (not apple mac)... I'll use it mainly for photography and image editing, it's meant to replace the desktop therefore I need a good display which can be calibrated decently. I know the latest mac displays (led backlit) are quite good on this side, but as I told you I can't buy a mac. What about the Dell inspiron 1720 with the High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200) Out of curiousity, is your objection to the Mac in the hardware or the software? If the latter, a MacBook Pro with XP installed could be an option. -dms |
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Buying a laptop.. need a good display.. help me!
On Jan 5, 7:52 pm, Daniel Silevitch wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:17:43 -0800 (PST), Snaggy wrote: I'm buying a laptop and need advice for a display. Max budget around 2000 dollars, pc (not apple mac)... I'll use it mainly for photography and image editing, it's meant to replace the desktop therefore I need a good display which can be calibrated decently. I know the latest mac displays (led backlit) are quite good on this side, but as I told you I can't buy a mac. What about the Dell inspiron 1720 with the High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200) Out of curiousity, is your objection to the Mac in the hardware or the software? If the latter, a MacBook Pro with XP installed could be an option. -dms I have no objections personally, i mean I'd love a mac, simply the person for whom I'm buying this computer won't ever hear of it... dunno why |
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Buying a laptop.. need a good display.. help me!
Snaggy wrote:
I'm buying a laptop and need advice for a display. Max budget around 2000 dollars, pc (not apple mac)... I'll use it mainly for photography and image editing, it's meant to replace the desktop therefore I need a good display which can be calibrated decently. I know the latest mac displays (led backlit) are quite good on this side, but as I told you I can't buy a mac. What about the Dell inspiron 1720 with the High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200) any suggestion? I ended up with a Sony VGN-FZ285U (15.4" screen 1280x800) when my Dell workstation died of old age. All the new models have much better displays: I can actually read this thing outside in the sun. I couldn't wait longer after a week of downtime trying to fix it & Dell would have taken a couple weeks custom built for the specs I wanted. My only complaint is the large but slow hard drive (similar to the dell you are looking at but not SATA), for photoshop work, it really would be better to have a faster HD and that's hard to find in an off-the shelf laptop. I also wanted something with a dedicated video card & lots of RAM, oh and the wireless card is the latest (none of the othes had that). Plus what I really would have liked would have been $3,000 at Dell ...you get more options going through the small buisiness track on their site... it's good stuff but man that's a lot for a laptop. |
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Buying a laptop.. need a good display.. help me!
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 10:38:39 -0800 (PST), ransley
wrote: On Jan 5, 12:17*pm, Snaggy wrote: I'm buying a laptop and need advice for a display. Max budget around 2000 dollars, pc (not apple mac)... I'll use it mainly for photography and image editing, it's meant to replace the desktop therefore I need a good display which can be calibrated decently. I know the latest mac displays (led backlit) are quite good on this side, but as I told you I can't buy a mac. What about the Dell inspiron 1720 with the High Resolution, glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920 x 1200) any suggestion? bye luca I have a dell 17 1920 x 1200, you wont need to calibrate it and the display is as good as you get except for maybe the Led Lcd but I have never compared them. What I see on the screen it prints. Why would anyone buy a widescreen except to watch widescreen movies? Wide screen means less height, a slit-eyed narrow display. These displays are cramped vertically. Don't you ever shoot portraits? Wide can be an advantage for long lines in spreadsheets, but web pages and most text documents have a vertical presentation and you need height for that. Widescreen is an inconvenient fad. Even the new GPS navigators have wide screens, very unsuitable for maps. My Lenovo laptop has an SXGA+ screen, which is 1400 x 1050. That's a great resolution for photos and general use, and I am well pleased with it, although my old desktop NEC MultiSync FE950+ CRT monitor looks better and I always use it when I'm home. Ed |
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Buying a laptop.. need a good display.. help me!
EAL wrote:
Why would anyone buy a widescreen except to watch widescreen movies? Very simple: to be able to see two documents side by side for cross-reference without overlap. Very convenient! jue |
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Buying a laptop.. need a good display.. help me!
In article , George Kerby
wrote: Buy a Mac. It's the best. AND it will run those crappy PC programs, if you insist. Agreed, but I wouldn't want to desecrate a fine machine like that with any version of Windows. |
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Buying a laptop.. need a good display.. help me!
In article , EAL
wrote: Why would anyone buy a widescreen except to watch widescreen movies? Wide screen means less height, a slit-eyed narrow display. These displays are cramped vertically. Don't you ever shoot portraits? i often shoot portraits, and with a widescreen display, there's plenty of room for tool palettes or even two images side by side for comparison purposes. the extra space does not go to waste. plus, one can always rotate the display into portrait mode. |
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