Is my dad right?

[Noni Juice]

I currently have a main PC with a VX2025, Im thinking of selling this for a laptop as I just dont use the PC like I used to, now its just FM2007, music and internet.

Now I told him this and he said to me I shouldnt sell the monitor, as looking at a laptop screen over time will play havoc with my eyes. He said something about the size? flicker rate? refresh rate? He said I should keep the monitor and use it with the laptop.

I know a lot about monitors so I tried to explain to him how everything works, and then I told him how what he is saying is kinda crap? He said he worked in I.T. all his life so he knows how computers work.

Is there anyway I can prove to him that laptop screens are no different to your eyes than normal monitors? Or am I wrong?

Its just that hes being very stubborn over it, and I want to downgrade to a laptop! Not upgrade to something bigger!

Thanks.

 

[The_TailGunner]

what refresh rate? its a tft...refresh as you mean it only really applies to crts. (how many times a second the electron beam scans accross the screen in a second, to vastly oversimplify it)

no, looking at a lappy monitor will in no way harm your eyes any more than looking at any other tft screen...

the only difference is size really, and a 15" tft is about the same size as a 17" crt, but i cant see a smaller screen hurting your eyes really?

 

[malcolm]

I have the use of two different Dell laptops, one with a small 1024x768 screen, the other has a widescreen with 1280 x 800 resolution. Both suffer with very restricted viewing angles, which is not a disaster for a laptop, but is something to bear in mind. I'm not aware that the screen image quality is necessarily worse on a laptop versus a desktop screen, they use similar technology, the main difference is lighting levels, with laptops turned down to help the batteries.

I don't know the VX2025, but gather it's a decent piece of kit in todays terms. Yolu really have to decide what sort of return you'll get on it if you sell it second hand and later decide the laptop route is not for you.

A laptop which offer graphics good enough for gaming is not a trivial purchase, but you probably knew that anyway.

 

[Baddass]

do you really want to bother with the argument why not just sit back safe in the knowledge that you are right here

a laptop LCD display is very similar to a desktop LCD display. Both are liquid crystal panels, and operate in similar ways. there is no refreshing done in the CRT sense on either type, both operate at a recommended refresh rate of 60Hz. There are a few things to consider though.a laptop screen is going to be smaller than your 20"WS monitor, and the resolution is likely to be less. if the res on the laptop is too large, you could give yourself eyestrain as pixel pitch is very small....ie if you set res too high (which some laptops will let you do) but still use that small screen, text and everything will be very small). Also, the laptop is very likely to be a TN Film based panel, and probably suffers from some pretty restrictive viewing angles. these are often much much worse than a desktop TN Film panel as well, with even slight head movements leading to obvious contrast and coloir shift. because laptops are obv designed just for one person to use, this doesnt matter, but you may find your desktop LCD is less of a problem here.

in fact, your particular desktop display is quite different from TN Film panels, being based on an AU Optronics P-MVA panel. Check the sticky for more info, but the panel will offer superior performance to the laptop screen, much wider viewing angles, and prob a more comfortable experience.

responsiveness is also likely to be better from your VX2025WM, as laptop screens are rarely aimed at gamers, and so the panel is probably not nearly as good here.

so i guess you're both right in a way. there's no problem with refresh from a laptop, but your desktop screen here is still likely to give you mroe comfortable and superior performance in practice