Need guidance to clarify my ignorance

Hello, I want a Windows laptop with an Ivy Bridge i7, upgradeable ram and such and I think that i have one or two picked out. My question is...is there any possibility of upgrading an MSI GT60 or an Asus G55VW 15.6" laptop from the 1920x1080 resolution to a higher resolution.

I don't need retina capability but perhaps the next logical step up.

I know the video card and the lcd/led panel effect this. Can these be changed out with a reasonable cost to make it sharper? It's for editting macrophotos of insects, arachnids and such.

Thanks!

 

You won't be able to upgrade the panel to a higher resolution one, using an external lcd is pretty much your only option if the laptop supports an output higher than 1920x1080 which is something you'd have to check depending on the typo of video out you have on those notebooks.

 

The best advice has already been giving, an external monitor will be your only choice and just the size increase alone will make it easier for you to do the editing, this coming from a fellow photographer. Now if you want better resolution I believe a 27" will be the only way to go so that you may get 2560x1440.

 

i'm not sure if you could upgrade the screen on such a new laptop i have heard of upgrading the screens on older laptops with higher resolutions though (to the resolution you have now).

 

If it can be repaired, it can be replaced. That said, it's simply just not as user friendly nor as upgradable as the rest of your computer's components. A practice I have been admonishing for many years now. The screens are the last great holdout of the upgrade laptop components.

Funny, because right now they're also the part with the most innovation. There's no reason why it shouldn't be as easy to slide a new one in as it is adding a new HDD. Whomever realizes and implements this first, will definitely get all my new business.

 

There is however one hiccup that can occur when you want to upgrade your screen and that is the connector on the motherboard. I don't remember the exact amount of pins required on the connector, but i think that for a 1080p monitor it's 40 (or was it 50) pins on the LVDS cable, you need 10 more for 3D if i recall correctly and you'd also likely need more than 40 pins for a lcd panel with a higher resolution. I may be wrong though, but if i am right, even if your GPU supports the new resolution you want, the connector for the LVDS cable on the motherboard might not cut it.

The mobo connector is actually a problem for some notebooks if you want to get rid of their 1366x768 panels.

It really is a shame, because there are some laptops that have a rather lackluster lcd, but where the rest of the specs can be interesting.

 

Yeah the GT60/70 have 40pin. I too think you gonna have big problems finding any screen higher than 1080p