After a laptop but what's with all the 1366x768 screens?

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Hi all,
I guess your bored of these recommend me threads so i'll try to keep it short :).

After a laptop needing mainly 1)good battery life 2)decent resolution >1366x768 hence the title.

Any help would be ace, thanks!
 
The HP EliteBook 8530p has a 15.4" display with a 1680 x 1050 resolution, and gets over 4 hours with the standard battery, and nearly 11 with the Ultra-Capacity battery.

It would be useful to know what your budget is :)
 
them battery hours qouted are maximum hours under best power savings enabled, if for example you were to start increasing the sceen briteness , plugging in memory sticks using the wireless constantly etc , these are example's then the quoted numbers for hours use will go down quite a lot. I found this from my using my Netbook.
 
Thanks for the replies, forgot to mention a budget (d'oh) but I'm happy to spend as little as possible to get a decent laptop that will last:D.... £650 is the limit at the moment.

I have had a quick look at dell and the studio 15 with 1920x1080 looked ok but then there is the additional options, the interesting one is the 9cell batt.

Whats the max & average batter life i'm looking at with these kinds of laptops?
 
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Here's what I've found so far:

studio 15(N0053514)
T4300 @2.10 GHz
win7 home premium
4 GB ddr2
500GB hdd
15.6" screen 1920x1080
HD4570
dvdrw
9cell 85whr battery upgrade
wireless 802.11b/g
£629.00

Good deal? I think I'm right in estimating the battery life at 4hrs max. Anyone got experience with one of these?
 
The T4300 is a great chip and faster than a lot of the Core 2 Duo's. Although for £629, it is a bit expensive. As a comparison, i got a Inspiron 1545 with the T4200, 4Gb ram, HD4570, 320Gb HDD, 6cell, 1366x768 WLED screen for £350.
 
Have found & paid for a similar spec but instead of 500gb of portable storage I won't use It's got a 320gb, P7350 cpu & wireless n at slightly less.

Will see how good the battery life is when it turns up (soon I hope)
 
MarkDavis said:
Wait until your eyesite gets ruined with all that extra eyestrain.
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eyesite?

My eyes aren't strained. Of course, if you feel your eyes becoming strained, you can simply increase font size in Windows, affording you the benefit of the 1920 resolution and readable text. However, even at default font scaling, text is perfectly readable.
 
The ciliary muscles and suspensory ligaments around the lens are under more strain because they're not being worked in a way that is ideal, particularly you're spending long periods of time in front of the screen at that resolution.

You're not necessarily going to 'feel' it, but over a period of years, the muscles and ligament degenerate and become less flexible. If you're young, you probably won't notice it until its too late, and its even more of a risk factor if there's any family history of shortsightedness or astigmatism.
 
MarkDavis said:
The ciliary muscles and suspensory ligaments around the lens are under more strain because they're not being worked in a way that is ideal, particularly you're spending long periods of time in front of the screen at that resolution.

You're not necessarily going to 'feel' it, but over a period of years, the muscles and ligament degenerate and become less flexible. If you're young, you probably won't notice it until its too late, and its even more of a risk factor if there's any family history of shortsightedness or astigmatism.
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There isn't a resolution at which your eyes suddenly start to strain - I have astigmatism and am long-sighted and I wore glasses permanently until I was 16, but don't require them anymore. My vision is far from 20/20 but I cope quite well and am very acutely aware of when my eyes begin to strain, and from a personal point of view I have no trouble at all with this laptop.

I can tell when my eyes strain, for example if I move the laptop further away I almost instantly notice my eyes straining, but at my usual viewing distance I have no trouble.
 
Nymins said:
The T4300 is a great chip and faster than a lot of the Core 2 Duo's. Although for £629, it is a bit expensive. As a comparison, i got a Inspiron 1545 with the T4200, 4Gb ram, HD4570, 320Gb HDD, 6cell, 1366x768 WLED screen for £350.
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May I ask, how did you get an Inspiron with that spec so cheap?
 
Just realised it's not the 4570, but the lower powered 4330! Still a decent gpu and better than integrated.

Got it off the Dell Outlet store, lucky cause it was the last one with a dedicated gpu.
 
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