Hi,
I'm looking for a laptop preferably 17.3" but 15.6" could be OK. The key feature I want is a good quality display with even illumination and decent contrast levels. Most laptops get criticised for contrast ratios under 180:1. (My current 5 year old monitor is rated at 800:1 which was good then).
I'd like to avoid integrated graphics.
Resolution should be 1600x900 or 1366x768 for the 17.3" screen or 1366x768 for the 15.6.
I've done calculations which show that a 5 pixel wide upper case character is 1.2mm, 1.4mm and 1.25mm wide respectively for the above display options.
This is significant because I use Photoshop Elements which does not use Microsoft fonts for its menus and tools, but instead uses an internal pixel based character set whose size cannot be altered except by changing resolution which is generally unacceptable for LCDs (full Photoshop CS is different). This means that at high resolutions on smaller displays the characters become microscopically small. On a 17.3 display at 1920x1080 the 5px character is a mere 1mm wide.
So I wonder anyone suggest a suitable laptop brand or model up to £850 which might meet this requirement? I assume that the rest of the spec at that price level would be satisfactory.
Many thanks
I'm looking for a laptop preferably 17.3" but 15.6" could be OK. The key feature I want is a good quality display with even illumination and decent contrast levels. Most laptops get criticised for contrast ratios under 180:1. (My current 5 year old monitor is rated at 800:1 which was good then).
I'd like to avoid integrated graphics.
Resolution should be 1600x900 or 1366x768 for the 17.3" screen or 1366x768 for the 15.6.
I've done calculations which show that a 5 pixel wide upper case character is 1.2mm, 1.4mm and 1.25mm wide respectively for the above display options.
This is significant because I use Photoshop Elements which does not use Microsoft fonts for its menus and tools, but instead uses an internal pixel based character set whose size cannot be altered except by changing resolution which is generally unacceptable for LCDs (full Photoshop CS is different). This means that at high resolutions on smaller displays the characters become microscopically small. On a 17.3 display at 1920x1080 the 5px character is a mere 1mm wide.
So I wonder anyone suggest a suitable laptop brand or model up to £850 which might meet this requirement? I assume that the rest of the spec at that price level would be satisfactory.
Many thanks
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