Laptop Screen Sizes

[Spacecadet]

Yup, it's a Area-51 M5550. Nice little beasty, but whatever you do DON'T get the ATI gfx card, the drivers are crap. When I install the catalyst drivers it messes up standby and the screen won't turn on when it comes out of standby. Fine if I hibernate and fine if I turn on and off just standby thats knackered. All works fine if I remove the catalyst drivers.

Cheers for that think i've got it down to 3 laptops now and still got to choose between 15 and 17"
The M5550 is looking like the best buy

[Ardesco]

Well if you do buy an Alienware one you could always do it through the banner link on my webby

[Spacecadet]

Well if you do buy an Alienware one you could always do it through the banner link on my webby

I would if i could find it!

[Ardesco]

Just refresh a couple of times and it will appear as a banner at the top

[Spacecadet]

Just refresh a couple of times and it will appear as a banner at the top

tried that, no joy either... i'll be in touch if i do decide to go for alienware

[Joe Black]

As a database developer which is best?
12, 15 or 17"?
Assuming best possible resolution on each

I really can't make my mind up

Depends on how good your eyesight is.

To that of course can be added how often you will be using it (if you have another PC), and any other concerns, e.g. weight, size etc.

Had to make the same choice end last year, my previous notebooks having always been ultra-portables. In the end, though I fancied something similar, I decided to take a screenshot of my typical environment and resized it to show how it would look on a few screens with various dpi and printed them off to see what I was comfortable with.

May seem a bit ott, but in the end though the various sizes or dpi may sound good, if it means a 10pt font is only a few millimetres tall...