Scrreen size is relative:
What's your apps: eg if you use GreenBrowser you can blow up text to really large type...
on the otherhand you might want the benefits of say what I have a 17" Toshiba and then use display under control panel for lower res which mags everything and the xtra screen real estate is the factor that makes it a go
I love the Tos and currently have the resolution cranked up to 2048X1536... not bad for a laptop. I also get yearly eyeglasses specific for computer use
You might also want to consider virtual screens..microsoft offers a free "tweak one" consisting of 4 screens for free
Tos far better than the Dell I had a couple of years ago
My sys 1 yr old model P25-S507. Refurbs are avail. Great machine used approx 10 hrs per day and 17" laptop screen equiv I believe to a 19" desktop monitor
Don't believe you'll experience any problems with so called "native res" personally have found that a bunch of hooey...native res on this is XGA -WXGA to be precise- but obviously i'm not experiencing any problems...remember Tos makes LCD's not many do including Dell.
bye the bye test your screen and look for burned out pixels. Mine's perfect to this day
hope this helps...have had laptops since Radio Shack 100 in 1984.
I am in the market for a new laptop and love the wide screen laptops. However, I find that the high resolution makes the text difficult to read. I thought about lowering the resolution but I've been told that lowering the resolution from the native setting will affect the display quality. True??
I currently have an old IBM A21M with a sreen resolution setting of 1024 * 768 and am comfortable with this.
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