About to buy a T61P WUXGA (Font Size to 120 DPI anyone?)

Hi all.

I'm very close to purchasing a T61P (T7700, WUXGA 1920 x 1200).

Have seen lots of helpful posts in the forums, especially the clean install recommendations. I've also seen a few posts on screen quality, and in particular font sizes. I had a quick look at a machine when I was in Singapore a few weeks ago (and where I'll be going back to buy the PC).

It was pretty obvious that with such a high screen resolution on a 15.4" screen that fonts and menus were very small, however I simply flipped the font size (DPI) to 'Larger scale (120 DPI) - and it looked pretty good. (In Vista - right click on the desktop, choose Personalize, and then the Adjust font size (DPI) task on the left menu).

Was wondering if any other WUXGA 1920 x 1200 owners out there would care to comment? And whether you've also changed the DPI in Vista to improve font and menu sizes?

 

I stuck with the small text for God knows why. Now I can't go back. It's sort of an unintentional privacy device, because anyone trying to read your screen will have to be very close and squint to see anything ;-)

 

WUXGA just doesn't work for me . . .


I had a 15.4" Windows machine once with (I think) 1680x1050 and couldn't see the damn text without my nose being about two inches from the screen. I envy you folks with good eyesight!

 

I use the 120 DPI - works good for me...

 

Since I'm in much the same boat as the original inquirer, I'd love to hear more comments on this. Does changing the font size with Vista work with all programs? For example, I've read you can run into difficulties with some browser windows/web pages. Not sure if this is true, but I'd like to hear if there are in fact any limitations to this approach to changing font size. Thanks, people.

 

How does the 120 dpi work? Can someone take a screenshot?

I use the WUXGA without the DPI adjustment.

I can read everything fine without looking closely at the screen or squinting.

 

Hi dimonay

On the desktop of Windows Vista - right click, and choose 'Personalize' (last option on the pop-up context menu).

The on the Personalization window - you'll see a special Tasks panel on the top left.

Choose the 'Adjust font size (DPI)' - and try the default 'Larger scale (120 DPI)' option.

I was only able to take a quick look at this setting when I was in the Lenovo shop in Singapore... but will experiment again just before I buy the notebook.

It seemed to do the trick..... was just wondering if anyone else was using their ThinkPad T61P with these settings - and what their thoughts were...

 

I changed to larger scale. But the 3 shutdown buttons under "start" is two large, so the third one only displays small part. Any way to fix this?

 

Changeing the font to 120 DPI doesn't really solve the problem, as the text of web browsers and some applications don't get changed.

At first I thought WUXGA wa stoo small for me. I even considered selling the laptop. But after 1 week of painful use I got used to it. Now I can't go back
Anything less than 1920 x 1200 is too big now.

And for those who don't know tehre are even 15 inches monitors with QXGA resolution (2048×1536). Wicked.

I recommend everyone with a WUXGA monitor to give it a try for a while.

 

"Changeing the font to 120 DPI doesn't really solve the problem, as the text of web browsers and some applications don't get changed."

You can change the webbrowser text size in the IE View Menu. Having to change the text size in other applications is a pretty normal thing.

 

Most WUXGA displays are 17" units meaning that they display 1920x1200 at 133 ppi. The 15.4" WS T61 WUXGA display is 148 ppi.

That said, my 15.4" WS T60 with a WSXGA+ display is my first laptop in over 4 years that has a display resolution of *less* than 133 ppi. It makes do with a paltry 129 ppi.

It does a good share of CAD work which really does requires a high resolution display.

 

Yes, but it's not as comfortable as if the web browser text was changed automatically. Not to say that some webpages layout are dependant of the font size.

 

I use firefox with no Squint add on with my WUXGA t61p. It works great. Just ctrl + scroll to the desired size and the program remembers it for every page.

 

I use mine just fine at 100 dpi.

 

I had a T61p 15.4" widescreen and I couldn't stand the small screen and font size. I'm passed 40 and farsightedness sets in, I can't even use and have to sell away my 12" X60 and moved on to bigger screen.

It may damage your eyes if you squint too much on the WUXGA resolution, changing it to other resolution would create a blurry look as the LCD goes off 'native' mode and try to interpolate to other resolution.

I have tried setting to 120DPI and big icons before but it ddin't look 'naturally'.
So I sold that T61p and settled for a T61 with 1024x768.

Oh yeah, hounddoggie, firefox beta 1, 2 and 3 have the nosquint addon included B-)

 

Addon No Squint is a good solution for that.