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    Just got a RF411, bad screen quality?

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by cy007, May 29, 2011.

  1. cy007

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    Everything about the computer's great. Core i5 2410 processor, 6GB RAM, great looks (I'm a major fanboy of Samsung's designs), overall a lot more speedy than the Acer Aspire 4741G I've been ranting about for a year... but wait, the screen quality's not half as great as I thought it'll be. While the demo unit at the store had great whites, mine appears, pinkish? Why is this so? I thought Samsung used their own panels? Why would there be a difference? Putting my 4741G side-by-side, the RF411 looks far worse. Overly saturated colors, p-poor vertical viewing angles, and as I mentioned, yellowish whites... this has got to be the worst laptop screen I've seen in years (and all this time I thought the Acers had it worse). Does anyone know how I can check which panel my laptop's equipped with? Hey at a heavily discounted price of US$900 (credit card deal) I'm not complaining, but it'll be nice to know what's up regardless.
     
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    You should be able to find out the panel type by either (i) Device Manager > Monitor > Properties > Details > HardwareIDs or (ii) run HWiNFO32 and look at the monitor details. Samsung monitors have a code starting with SEC.

    For reasons best known to the manufacturers, 14" displays seem to be less good than the 13" and 15" sizes. However, you can take several steps to improve the display that you have: First try running the Windows 7 calibrate tool (which has given me mixed results) and if that doesn't improve things then go into the graphics driver properties and (a) adjust gamma then (b) go to the individual colour bands and adjust the saturation. If your display has a yellow tint then try increasing blue by +1.

    John
     
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    Thanks! It's indeed a Samsung panel (says SEC3549 in device manager). Thinking about it, it actually makes sense why the 14" laptops have the worst screens. Just check out the pricing. The RF511 (15" model) costs US$1400 here with the special discount, go figure. Same goes for HP... the Radeon 6750 equipped dv4 is US$1025 whereas the similarly speced (minus the marginally faster Radeon 6770 of course) costs at least US$400 more. Let's face it, the 14" models are always the cheapest of the lineup. At least I got what I payed for hey?
     
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