Monitor Woes
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- Jnr_Madison
Just got the Dell widescreen "20 monitor.
I knew in advance the 'optimal' res was 1680x1050 but figure I'll run 1280x768. So I set it to this and it looks fine until I notice the text is ever so slightly blurred. It's like a pixel font in flash when it's not on a whole integer. It looks perfect at the native 1680X1050 but same problem with every other res.
Is there anything I can do? I've done everything in the monitor settings etc, no luck. I can't run 1680v1050, just too small for me, NT is like a tiny little box. Also don't like clear type in XP, but even that looks wrong outside native res.
Sorry for the long post.
- ribit0
no..you need to get used to 1680x1050... thats the way LCDs are..its got 1680 individual pixels across, 1050 down, and everything else will be blurry... Set your type sizes bigger where you can...but maybe you just have to get used to it. Even some 15" laptops use 1680x1050, its not a particularly fine resolution for a 20" display...
- uberdesigner0
while using this gorgeous monitor... I am a bit of a hardware snob - I've really only been impressed with the flatscreen monitors that Apple has put out. Until i bought this one (it took some impressive online reviews to convince me) - and i am more than really impressed with it!
The colours are so clean and bright - at first it kind of looks surreal, there is almost no loss of colour or brightness at a range of angles (and it is amazingly bright). it raises up and down, swivels 90 degrees (in case you want to view two pages vertically) has a heap of inputs, and is quite attractive also.So, for anyone who wants a good widescreen monitor (a really good one!) get this baby! You will not be disappointed at all! And i really do mean that.
- Jnr_Madison0
Are you taking the piss uber or did you forget to post a link to said monitor?
- joyride0
send it back and get the 24" Then you'll be happy
- Jnr_Madison0
thnx ribit, I tried hard to get used to it and I'll try again but I was hoping I could stick to what I like.
Will I have same problem with the Apple "20?
*sigh
- monNom0
try setting your appearance to "windows standard large" or extra-large
As for newstoday:
press ctrl & +/- in Firefox to set text size. (that's ctrl plus, or ctrl minus)
- Mojo0
umm, well you could set it to half the hardware resolution... so everything is doubled.. but urhg WHY
- ribit0
they are all like that... really, take some time to get used to it... selecting 1280 because your used to it sort of defeats the purpose of getting a newer/larger display... think of all the extra palletes you can see at once and stuff..
sit closer. :)