I just bought a Dell 2007FP 20 inch screen. It seems to be a good screen in terms of display quality, but I find its 1600x1200 optimum resolution to be a problem - text is simply too small to read comfortably. The high resolution also dwarfs 800x600 images posted in most websites. In fact, most of the images I'm posting to forums are not higher than 540 pixels. I choose this size to be sure that images are fully visible to users of (the very common) 1024x768 resolution who are not aware of Full screen browser mode (or simply don't like using it).
I'm looking at the possible solutions, from what I see they are all lacking:
1. Using a lower resolution (e.g. 1280x960) results in blurry text due interpolation. The blurry display also makes it impossible to accurately sharpen images.
2. Using a larger font size results in truncated labels on menus and buttons. It also truncates the file and folder names displayed on the desktop.
3. Returning the screen and getting a 1280x1024 19 inch LCD screen instead (e.g. ViewSonic VP930) is likely to result in lower display quality in other aspects (the 2007FP uses an ISPS panel, and those are considering the best for photo editing and graphic work)
4. Returning the screen and getting a good CRT screen is not practical, as none of those seem to be available anymore. In addition, I really like working in portrait mode (vertical orientation) and this is not possible with CRT screens.
In the time when 1280x1024 17 inch LCD were common I always found text to be too small, a fact that made me prefer CRT screens. But in the last year I used a 1280x1024 19 inch screen at work (CTX P972) and really enjoyed using it. It turns out that 1280x1024 is fine for a 19 inch screen, but too small for a 17 inch one. It was a bad oversight on my part to not notice that the 2007FP optimal resolution is in fact higher (1600x1200) and in turn the old small text problem is back.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
I'm looking at the possible solutions, from what I see they are all lacking:
1. Using a lower resolution (e.g. 1280x960) results in blurry text due interpolation. The blurry display also makes it impossible to accurately sharpen images.
2. Using a larger font size results in truncated labels on menus and buttons. It also truncates the file and folder names displayed on the desktop.
3. Returning the screen and getting a 1280x1024 19 inch LCD screen instead (e.g. ViewSonic VP930) is likely to result in lower display quality in other aspects (the 2007FP uses an ISPS panel, and those are considering the best for photo editing and graphic work)
4. Returning the screen and getting a good CRT screen is not practical, as none of those seem to be available anymore. In addition, I really like working in portrait mode (vertical orientation) and this is not possible with CRT screens.
In the time when 1280x1024 17 inch LCD were common I always found text to be too small, a fact that made me prefer CRT screens. But in the last year I used a 1280x1024 19 inch screen at work (CTX P972) and really enjoyed using it. It turns out that 1280x1024 is fine for a 19 inch screen, but too small for a 17 inch one. It was a bad oversight on my part to not notice that the 2007FP optimal resolution is in fact higher (1600x1200) and in turn the old small text problem is back.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!