5 Dec
2007
5 Dec
'07
5:03 a.m.
Stroller wrote:
On 3 Dec 2007, at 02:11, Doc Shipley wrote:
Yeah, I realized after sending that that I left off about half of
what I meant to say.
I was comparing my powerbook laptop screen to a Dell laptop screen of
the same size and better resolution. The Mac wins hands-down.
I also have a Mac G5 connected to a Samsung 172t LCD and a Dell
2007FP LCD. I'll grant that a $500 LCD won't do a couple of things as
well as a $2500 CRT (my 21" SGI), like black blacks and fast motion
neither of which is important to me. Otherwise, the Dell easily equals
the SGI tube.
And, to drag this sort-of on-topic, the Dell has composite-in that
works fine with my Amigas and C128, although 40 columns at 20" is kind
of scary.
...
After looking at the PowerBooks, I bought the 15". The Mac screen is
much clearer, colors are more consistent, edges are sharper, and
smaller fonts are *less* pixelated at 1280x856 than the Dell at
1400x1050.
I'm not sure if you're comparing your laptop's screen with a Mac
connected to a Dell monitor, or a Dell PC generally. If it's the latter case then you shouldn't
because fonts are handled
differently between Mac & PC systems (although fonts under XP (and
Vista?) should be sharper than OS X (up to 10.4, anyway)).
I couldn't speak to that either way. The only Windows systems I
spend time with are classroom systems, and they're invariably cheap 17"
LCDs. *Those* are perfectly awful.
Doc