Notebook Screen Guide

September 26th, 2005 · No Comments

Notebook Review has written a decent overview about all things to do with laptop screens:

Notebook screens! Notebooks…have screens. And we usually don’t give them too much of a passing thought when we go buying; by and large when I went notebook shopping I just assumed “well, it has one, and it sure looks pretty” and was pretty much done with that.

The problem is that as consumers we like and want to be informed, and we shouldn’t have to default to “oh, well, okay.” But the terminology used to describe notebooks is always a bunch of complex crap that, quite frankly, doesn’t mean anything to most consumers. I’ve been working on computers for years and years and “WSXGA+” and “WUXGA” and all that don’t make any sense at all. Why can’t they just state the actual screen resolution?

The reality of it is that there are all kinds of minutiae about notebook screens that should be understood, as well as a couple of major things, like dead pixels.

This guide is here to help make some sense of it all.

If you’re planning to get a new notebook soon (like me) this is a must read. Of course since I’ve now been brainwashed by the cult of Apple my choice has already been made