On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 02:51:00AM -0500, John Francis wrote: > > It's an IPS display, which probably counts for something, right? Anyway, > I reckon it has to be an improvement over the regular screen on my Compaq.
Update: It got here a couple of days ago. To say it's an improvement over the regular screen on my laptop is about as gross an understatement as saying that summers in Saudi Arabia are warm. And that's without calibrating - just dialing the brightness down to a more reasonable level (out-of-the-box it seems to be cranked all the way up). I was expecting to see an improvement in colour, so wasn't too surprised to see a significant colour shift (most noticeably in much warmer earth tones). What I wasn't anticipating was the way differences change over the course of the day; the delta between the two screens looks very different in daylight from how it appears in the evenings with the room lit by artificial lighting. Once you think about it you can understand why (and how) it happens, but it wasn't a change that I had considered until I saw it. After all, both screens are lit by the same light sources, no matter what is going on outside them .. But all the other changes are dwarfed by the sheer brilliance of the greens; until I saw the displays side-by-side I could ignore just how terrible a job my old monitor was doing. There are other, very noticeable, changes - too; blacks are much deeper, and more detail is visible in the shadows. Finally: having two 1920x1200 displays side-by-side doesn't suck, either :-) There is one downside: my wife has already started using her notebook in a twin-screen configuration, too; until now she's only been using the external display, even though most of the time she's working with large spreadsheets. And she's muttering about 1920x1200 being noticeably better than 1920x1080, and the fact that I've got much nicer colours on my display ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
