[XC] Lead Head
11-23-2012, 01:22 PM
My old desktop was an Opteron 165 + HD4770. It couldn't push many pixels, but that's okay because I ran it on a 13 year old Sony Trinitron @ 1365x1024. Recently I purchased a laptop for school, and it basically wipes the floor with my desktop (HD6570, i7).
The problem is the screen on this laptop is just awful, terrible contrast and the color accuracy is dreadful. I spend a lot of time at a desk, so I like to "dock" my laptop. When I hook the trinitron up to my laptop, I'm just blown away by how rich the colors are and just how dark the blacks can be (one interesting bit is how "dark" the dark colors on modern websites and games seem to be. I often have to turn the brightness up. If I had to guess, it's designers trying to make their sites appear better on crap LCDs?).
But of course, the trinitron is getting very old at this point. It's starting to loose sharpness and the convergence drifts a bit now, and well it's just plain huge. I'm looking for the LCD that can get me at least close to what this trinitron offers me. 17-21" would probably be fine.
Any suggestions?
The problem is the screen on this laptop is just awful, terrible contrast and the color accuracy is dreadful. I spend a lot of time at a desk, so I like to "dock" my laptop. When I hook the trinitron up to my laptop, I'm just blown away by how rich the colors are and just how dark the blacks can be (one interesting bit is how "dark" the dark colors on modern websites and games seem to be. I often have to turn the brightness up. If I had to guess, it's designers trying to make their sites appear better on crap LCDs?).
But of course, the trinitron is getting very old at this point. It's starting to loose sharpness and the convergence drifts a bit now, and well it's just plain huge. I'm looking for the LCD that can get me at least close to what this trinitron offers me. 17-21" would probably be fine.
Any suggestions?