DELL D620 Display

If anyone is interested in the D620 here is some info you may find useful. Co-worker sitting next to me just received a Dell D620 as a replacement for his older non-widescreen latitude. The native resolution of 1440 doesnt really seem realistic to use on a regular basis. Moving the resolution down to 1280x800 made the desktop more viewable however he picture is extremely grainy which also leaves it non usable. If anyone had any experience with it let me know if they have had any success in using something other than 1440

 

you cannot run notebook LCDs outside of their native resolution w/out getting a 'fuzzy' look

 

There's a world record complaint thread about the D620 screens over on the Dell Forums (where most posts are lucky to get one reply). 47 pages, 470 posts:

http://forum.us.dell.com/supportfor...essage.id=21944&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

I've seen one of the screens in question (the D620 is our corporate standard) and it's much worse than my wife's cheap (AU$800 / US$500) Acer.

Dell has always cut corners, but this time it cut too far. On its business line too !

Your colleague's best option is to have a terrible accident with the tea lady's trolley.

 

try using large fonts if the text is too small

 

since my school gives such a good deal on dell d620,
i went to check it out at a store in my school.
its display was very... how should i put this.. terrible.
the display was so dull and grainy that it gave me
eye strain only after 10 minutes of usage.

also alot of people say that its build quality is very good..
but i couldn't see that either.

 

k i visited chemware's link and it has just what i wanted to say..

dull and out-of-focus

 

i bought a d620, and returned it within a week because of the terrible screen

 

how's the d620's screen different from the 640m's? I use a 640m with TFT and it doesnt look too bad to me.

 

i think if all of you reread the original post, it's about resolution being too small and not the quality of the LCD

 

i think the panel is WXGA+, whose naitive resolution is 1440..
i ordered my d620 with cheaper one, WXGA, whose default is 1280.

check with dell if u can change panel..

 

change dpi to 96 if its not already, or 120 dpi..or something in between.

usually improves readability without compromising quality worth a try.

start> control panel> display> settings tab> advanced> general> change dpi

 

SAME HERE!!!