E6410 Owner's Thread

No doubt. They need to introduce that QHD+ screen into the Latitude line. (Or has that already been announced somewhere?)

 

Not sure, but my preferred resolution on 14" is 1600x900. Any higher would cause text to be too small, and 1920x1080 is already pushing it. Many years ago, I had a Precision M70 with 15.4" 1920x1200 that was great for large Visio drawings, but DPI was too high for text-based work.

 

I have had a good experience with Windows DPI scaling on the 1080p 15" Latitude. I don't think it would be an issue. There will definitely be scaling support in whatever drivers they provide with the QHD+ screens.

 

Drivers aren't the issue because the OS plays well with DPI scaling, but most applications and internal sites do not. Except for graphical work, which is what the M3800 is targeting, there are just too many problems with formatting or other less than optimal behavior when DPI is not 100%.

For example, Remote Desktop just looks fuzzy. To make it work correcly, there would have to some negotiation between client/server to set the DPI on the server. But then we would be back at the same problem because applications on the server would have the formatting issues...

I've seen the IPS 1920x1080 screen in the Asus UX31A, which looks great, but I'm glad I don't have to squint to look at the X1 Carbon's "low resolution" 1600x900.

What type of work are you going to use your machine for?

 

Agreed. It's not a 100% smooth experience across a variety of applications with really high PPI screens, but I'm sure it's going to get better with the launch of all of these high res screens.

My main obsession with high PPI screens is for hobby photo editing of high MP images (and future proofing for very high MP images that are inevitably coming up) for home use.

At work I just use a 1920x1200 25.5" screen with another small 22" screen for writing code.

That said, I have accessed the remote desktop of my work computer from my 1920x1080 E6510 in the past and although there was some size issue, I recall doing some workaround to make it work nicely.

Either way, going forward, I would think things should improve across the board making the relation between text size and ppi irrelevant.

 

Smart sizing is probably what you added to the config, but that's an interesting suggestion. If you do the math to get the window size that would be equivalent to the reciprocal of the DPI %, it should be back to its normal size.

 

Indeed. Let's wait and watch how the QHD+ screens play.

 

Notebook's in. Good everything, the only thing that sucks is that it came with win 7 pro as promised, but it seems to be a 'technically illegal' copy.

The under-battery sticker has the serial number for Windows Vista Home Basic OEM. Currently the Windows License ID shows Win 7 Pro OEM. The seller did not provide me with an upgrade key, so I think I am right in assuming this is an illegal windows 7 professional running on here.

This sucks, for one reason - I need windows to run Lightroom. I suppose I can Vista Home Premium.

I'll end up installing Lubuntu/Mint on a dual boot setup. Any suggestions/comments?

I've contacted the seller but he doesn't seem too interested in replying.

 

You could take the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 8.1.

Only suggestion I would have is to avoid dual-booting and use a VM instead. Hyper-V or VMware Player should work fine.

 

Yeah, let's see what the seller has to say. If he can honor it, it would be sweet.