small displays with high res, laptops only?

KangooVanMan

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Why can't you get smaller displays (17" - 22") with a 1920x1200 res? My sister has a viao laptop with a 17" display at the above res, and the couple of games I tried on it looked stunning. Albeit the menus were a tad tricky to read without a microscope.
Is it just down to cost? Not everybody has a huge desk to home a 24"+ monster. A 19" widescreen @ 1920x1200 would be just what the Dr ordered. I'm just curious why no such screens exist, or if they do I've never seen one.
 
KangooVanMan said:
Why can't you get smaller displays (17" - 22") with a 1920x1200 res? My sister has a viao laptop with a 17" display at the above res, and the couple of games I tried on it looked stunning. Albeit the menus were a tad tricky to read without a microscope.
Is it just down to cost? Not everybody has a huge desk to home a 24"+ monster. A 19" widescreen @ 1920x1200 would be just what the Dr ordered. I'm just curious why no such screens exist, or if they do I've never seen one.
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You've said it yourself, higher resolutions on small screens are difficult to read.

sid
 
Well you can change the dpi for windows if you need, but i'd rather have high res with tiny menus than big menus and low res. Stll doesn't explain why no one has produced such a screen either as laptop owners have it.
Your average desktop user doesn't sit much if any further away from the screen than compared to a laptop user.
 
never understood this myself, why would laptop owners want it but not desktop users? If anything, i'd have thought it would be the other way round, i'm sure plenty of design/CAD users or whatever would like a super high res screen.
 
Laptop LCDs are typically inferior in terms of colour etc.

You'll need damn good colour/contrast for CAD/professional work.

sid
 
I'm sitting here at work on a 22" screen with a max of 1600x1200.

My laptop 17" goes up to 1900x1200 which is loads better for dev and graphics, and I find the quality more than up to the task. (sony 17" xblack laptop).

I'd love a 19"/17" widerscreen with 1900x1200 desktop screen!
 
Sony's new laptops do that resolution as it's true 1080P HiDef and there putting blu-ray drives in their laptops to get a greater market share of the next gen dvd players
 
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