WUXGA RGB LED available on M4400

me tooooo!

 

Antiglare (matte) RGB LED??

This exists?

 

It's a beautiful display, very bright, with the most vibrant colors I've seen on any monitor. It still has the same viewing angle issues as all TN notebook displays (which are the overwhelming majority of notebook displays), but now that I have a Flexview screen for reference, I would say that the two were about the same in terms of overall image quality. The WUXGA RGB LED easily makes up for its viewing angle shortcomings with clarity and image quality. The antiglare screen really helps keep it crystal clear, and the sheer brightness of the display should help overcome any issues with reflections. (I actually kept my display at about 75% brightness...anything brighter was too much for my eyes, indoors. I didn't notice any issues with reflections.)

It's worth noting that Windows XP and Vista don't handle the wide-gamut display very well by default, colors were drastically oversaturated, especially while surfing the web. It can be a challenge to properly calibrate the screen without special calibration equipment. I found the extremely high DPI (WUXGA resolution in a 15.4" display) pretty hard on my eyes, until I migrated to Windows 7 (Windows 7 has much better DPI scaling than XP/Vista, which made even scaled text appear grainy/fuzzy, and often broke web page layouts). Note, I have pretty good vision (20/15, corrected). I wouldn't recommend this display to anyone who gets headaches or eyestrain and does a lot of text editing (documents, spreadsheets, programming, e-mail, etc.) and doesn't plan to install Windows 7 for its DPI scaling.

I ended up returning my M4400 due to issues with the touchpad. I'm not a big fan of Dell's keyboards/touchpads in general...I'll very much look forward to Lenovo getting these displays...I hope they do!