1920x1080 vs 1366x768 on a 15" laptop...

[arad85]

So it's time to upgrade the laptop with the new i7 quad cores becoming available. I'm down to two options:

Acer 5750 with 1366x768 TN screen
Dell XPS15 with 1920x1080 R+BGLED screen

Cost difference is a cool £330 so I'm liking the Acer at the moment

The question is: is 1920x1080 too high a resolution on a 15" screen and I'll need to have the text larger so negating the higher natural dpi and extra screen estate?

Use is occasional photo editing except it will see quite a bit of editing when we're in the US of A in August and a general purpose surfing laptop for Ms arad85

No point in suggesting a mac, or move to a 17" screen... we WANT a 15" screen (already have a 17" one here ).

 

[rgrebby]

its perfect on my 17" I feel that on a 15 it might be just a little small. It depends how good your eyesight is.

 

[arad85]

Thanks - that's along the lines I was thinking. I have a feeling it will be wasted on Ms arad85 (who will use it most of the time) who will want the fonts larger than standard. £600 vs £900... the <£600 Acer is looking the best bet at the mo.

 

[John Mc]

I focused more on contrast ratio as opposed to screen ratio. I wanted something that would show better colours. However, you might not have an option as most laptop screens are simular contrast ratios. I use a monitor with mines(and my desktop)

 

[Sebastian]

Have a look at Asus N53SN with 1080p screen, great spec and price. I am waiting for one to be delivered next week

 

[arad85]

Thank you

 

[arad85]

Have a look at Asus N53SN with 1080p screen, great spec and price. I am waiting for one to be delivered next week

Wish they did a version without the GT550 in though. 8G is plenty big enough for shared memory graphics and the GPU on chip with the i7 is plenty fast enough for what I want (i.e. image editing). So, it comes down to whether I want to pay an extra £200 for a better screen (I'd want to upgrade the Acer to 8G anyway which is another £60 on the £580) - decisions, decisions.....

 

[John Mc]

It wont share alot, 512mb-1gb max if your lucky.(all depending on the motherboard) and without dedicated graphics the cpu and ram will take a battering from extended use as part of a graphics card. there is few exceptions, Eg low spec gaming laptop's that are designed for you to run games at low specs.

What was your budget?

 

[arad85]

It wont share alot, 512mb-1gb max if your lucky.(all depending on the motherboard) and without dedicated graphics the cpu and ram will take a battering from extended use as part of a graphics card.

Well, not really - it's not like the CPU/RAM isn't designed to do that now is it

It'll share up to 1274M of memory and in reality, 1G is plenty - in fact 512M is enough as all I need is enough performance to do the 2D OpenGL image rendering that Photoshop needs acceleration for. I don't EVER game and any current GPU can accelerate any media I may want to play on it.

Additionally, I'd like to preserve as much battery power and another 35W chip plus 2G memory just keeps eating into the power budget.

What was your budget?

As little as I can get away with for the spec I want (i7-2630QM/8G + 1920x1080 display without dedicated GPU is what I actually want but can only seem to get the 1920 screen WITH a dedicated GPU ).