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Offer HighResolution screens for your consumer Laptops as you do for the business Latitudes

1740 points posted to Monitors and Displays, Laptops by rseibel 04/22/07

Please offer the highresolution screen for you consumer Inspiron and XPS laptops as an option as you do for the business line of Latitudes. It is not much more effort, but makes them much more attractive.

Now you offer 1280x800 i.e. 1 Megapixel aka. WXGA Resolution on 15,4" screens of your Inspirons, that might be fine for some people. But it is not appropriate for others like me.

I suggest to offer 1400x900 i.a. 1,26 Megapixel aka. WXGA+ or even 1680x1050 i.e. 1,76 Megapixel on your 15,4 " screens that is 26% respectively 76% more usefull screen space.

You offer higher resolutions for your Latitude laptops, why not for the regular user also? Apple is using HiResolution screens also..

Pros:
- One have more space on ones desktop and can be more productive by using the applications more effectively such as office, photoshop, movieediting, mindmaps etc.
- Your screen is fit for HiDefinition movies coming to the market now.
- Windows Vista has a vector based graphic user interface able to scale fonts appropriately and should be made able to adjust them as the user demands.

Cons:
- Sure it is more expensive to produce/assemble, but I am willing to pay some extra $ for that.
- The fonts might be too small for some people, but there is a solution for that with Vista.

Just an idea, fell free to comment!

soneil
04/22/07
Why don't you get a Latitude ?
rseibel
04/23/07
Latitudes are quite expensive and generally targeted for businisses. I like the Inspirons, they are quite cheap but I am missing the customizeable screens.
lengau
Apr 17
Merged Idea originally posted Jan 24
Higher Resoluton displays on Ubuntu laptops

The Inspiron 1520 has a 1680x1050 resolution display option. I want a 1680x1050 display on my notebook.

Please either put a 1680x1050 display on the 1420n, or put a laptop with a 1680x1050 display in the Ubuntu section.
jmxz
Apr 17
Merged Comment originally posted Jan 25
It's worth noting that this is backwards-progress in Dell's ubuntu support. Earlier (with the E1505N) they did offer 1680x1050 displays (which work very nicely and I'm very happy to have).
kasoroth
Apr 17
Merged Comment originally posted Feb 19
I'd like to see a laptop with 1920x1200 (widescreen) or 1600x1200 (non-widescreen) resolution with Ubuntu. Anything lower than 1200 vertical resolution makes a full page view of a PDF document too blurry to read comfortably, and zooming in to show less than a full page is really annoying because then you need to scroll the pages rather than being able to simply flip from page to page. I don't really need a powerful laptop, but I'd like a 1200 vertical resolution Ubuntu laptop for under $1200.
claudio_ch
Apr 17
Merged Comment originally posted Mar 28
I'm for 1920x1200, got used to it on my Inspiron 8500 (currently running Ubuntu 7.10)
 
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