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Laptops Screens, Glare or Matte?
An anonymous reader writes "This weekend I spent half a day surfing the web looking for a new laptop.
I just want (to be able to switch to) 1650x1280, or at least ...x1024, and a *non*-Glossy Display . To my surprise I found out that many vendors leave me not that much choice: ...x800, and glossy, i.e., higher-reflective type screens seem to have become the promoted defaults. Should I give up on my non-glossy wishes, or should I start flaming vendors?" I still can't understand the glossy screens. They make my eyes hurt almost immediately in any sort of ambient light, and do nothing in low light. Glossy laptop screens are like TVs on the shelf in the store with their colors all whacked out to look brighter. Once you get them into the real world, you realize that the colors are just wrong.
I was in a small company that merged with another small company; we used ThinkPads, because we'd had good experience with their quality, they used Toshibas, because they were affordable.
All I can say is that going with the Toshibas was a false economy. We were accustomed to beating on our ThinkPads until the letters on the keycaps were literally worn off. Actually the Thinkpad keys are probably its weakest point; individual keys tend to break off after eighteen months to two years of this punishment, although we became adept at fixing these problems. Toshibas often had multiple problems before they were a year old, with the power supply, screen or keyboard.
And forget about Linux running on them, not if you wanted everything to work. Toshiba's BIOS appears deliberately designed to kick Linux in the nuts. Things don't work, but you can get them to work if you lie to the BIOS when you are booting and say you are running Windows XP. Oh, and forget about changing any BIOS settings, Toshiba won't let you adjust much more than the system clock; you can change the boot order of devices, but that doesn't work very well either.
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So I actually found the reverse of what the OP was experiencing. Granted my search was confined to just Apple.
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I'd mod you up if I had any points. Seems like I never have them when I need them.
cough cough, bullshit, cough, cough
Modding Trolls +1 inciteful since 1999
Back in my day, monitors only displayed one color: black! And we liked it!
Get off my lawn.
sudo eat my shorts
Back in my day, monitors only displayed one color: black!
You need new glasses. The power button is right *there* (points).
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Right.
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill, and when we got home, our dad would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah!
You can't tell the young people of today that. They won't believe you.
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And then kick a jackass out who couldn't comprehend teh difference between looking at porn for the job and having porn for his desktop background.
Um, if you're already surrounded by porn, why does having such a background make someone a jackass?