How to tell if it has an RGB LED?

Hi,

I'm thinking about buying a Precision M4400 second-hand, and have asked the vendor if it has an RGB LED screen. The vendor doesn't know, and has asked me how he can find out.

Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding this info please? Is it generally on the documentation sent out from Dell, or somewhere in Windows (somewhere in NVidia Control Panel perhaps?)?

Thanks guys.

 

15.4" WUXGA TrueLife RGB LED display (1920x1200) featuring 100% Adobe® Color Gamut

is what Dell calls it. There are 2 x WUXGA 1920x1200 panel options for M4400, a WLED AG screen and the RGBLED.

 

Thanks for the reply.

What I'm trying to find out is: if I have the laptop in front of me, how do I find out which screen it has?

 

You can look up the original system configuration using the service tag, or you could remove the LCD and check its part #. However, if Dell calls the RGBLED screen "TrueLife", I think it might be a glossy screen.

 

The RGBLED option is much more vivid than WLED, and the RGBLED I believe is glossy as True Life = Dell's vocab for glossy, while the WLED option is Dell's AG = anti-glare = matte. Also RGBLED is only 1920x1200.

 

Ah, interesting. I hadn't realised that all the RGB LEDs are glossy.

Does that also mean that ALL the WLEDs are matte?

Glossy = RGBLED; matte = WLED?

Given the choice, would you choose the matte screen (generally my preference by a long way), or the True Life RGB LED? Just wondering if the RGB LED is SO good that I can overlook the annoying glossiness?

 

My Alienware M17xR2's 1920x1200 WUXGA panel is the same as the M6500 Precision, just the front glass part is glossy. TBH it's not a killer, my laptop sits indoors its life, I can't use it on battery anyway. Glossy makes it look more vibrant. And the RGBLED screen is a must if you do Photoshop work, much higher color accuracy having 100% color gamut.