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    1525 monitor - quality? Speaker quality?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dorenhagen, Feb 15, 2008.

  1. dorenhagen

    dorenhagen Newbie

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    What is the quality of the 1525 monitor? How long until higher res monitors become available?

    What is the speaker quality?

    Thank you very much.
     
    dorenhagen, Feb 15, 2008
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  2. chelet

    chelet Notebook Deity

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    I don't think they're going to use higher res monitors in the 1525. Same way I don't think they're going to get better than an X3100 for a video card.
    According to the review
    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4175
    the speakers are nothing special.
     
    chelet, Feb 15, 2008
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  3. HI DesertNM

    HI DesertNM Notebook Deity

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    Yeah, Dells speakers are crap. Thats one area where HP has a huge advantage over with their altec lansing speakers. At least with the dell 1420 I briefly had, I always had to plug in my external creative travel sound speakers. It was unbearable for me to listen to dells built in speakers. I think the reason they are so bad is they have nothing as far as crossovers or anything to improve the sound stage and stereo separation. Its a bad idea to just wire a raw speaker without any kind of crossover or something to help the imaging of the sound. But I think thats all you get with dell is a raw speakers soldered to the MOBO.

    I think on a business laptop this would be ok. But on a consumer entertainment PC Dell should take it up a notch on their built in speakers.
     
    HI DesertNM, Feb 16, 2008
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    speakers are NOT good at all. Almost unbearable to listen to, in that case I just plug in my headphones and call it a day.
     
    Distinguished, Feb 17, 2008
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