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I'm using the x1400 WSXGA display on the 15" widescreen and find that the max setting of is too high a resolution for this screen.

I think I've settled on the 1280 width resolution but want to know the difference between the 1280x800 and 1280x768 resolutions. What's the difference? Is one optimized for a particular purpose?

Out of curiosity, what screen resolution do you use?

trainwreck wrote:I'm using the x1400 WSXGA display on the 15" widescreen and find that the max setting of is too high a resolution for this screen.

I think I've settled on the 1280 width resolution but want to know the difference between the 1280x800 and 1280x768 resolutions. What's the difference? Is one optimized for a particular purpose?

Out of curiosity, what screen resolution do you use?

Using anything besides the native reolution is silly. The screen is meant to run at 1400x1050 and if that changes, picture quality suffers tremendously.

Just try and get used to the native resoulution and you'll be gald once you are.

Yes it is hard to tweak it to look good, however, some people have a hard time viewing the higher res screens. If you absolutely have to have things bigger, then one thing I found on line a while back is to try: in the custom DPI setting there is a ruler looking box, take a regular ruler and match the 1" on the screen to the 1" on the ruler, this will give you a somewhat more normal size to help the eyes.

pappcam wrote:The screen is meant to run at 1400x1050 and if that changes, picture quality suffers tremendously.

Except that his is a widescreen WSXGA+ and thus the native res. is 1680x1050

Trainwreck, the only difference between 1280x800 and 1280x768, that is WXGA+ and WXGA is the aspect ratio and nothing else.
WXGA+ is 16:10, while WXGA is a little lower, but not 16:9. You might remember from the TV world that 1280x720 is 16:9.

Either follow Kyocera's advice which should work fine, or then the advice that you should see if you can return it and get a WXGA+ LCD instead. Running LCDs out of the native resolutions like you do now, makes everything looks unsharper.

Kyocera wrote:Yes it is hard to tweak it to look good, however, some people have a hard time viewing the higher res screens. If you absolutely have to have things bigger, then one thing I found on line a while back is to try: in the custom DPI setting there is a ruler looking box, take a regular ruler and match the 1" on the screen to the 1" on the ruler, this will give you a somewhat more normal size to help the eyes.

What is the DPI setting and how do I get to it?

Control Panel>display>settings>advanced>DPI Setting>drop down>custom setting, you can use the ruler method or set it to whatever you feel comfortable with, to expand the ruler hover the pointer over it and left click hold and drag.

awesome. that works great.

What's your operating system? If it's Vista, then even non-native resolutions should look pretty good.

no, i'm running XP pro

You may also download MICROANGELO, a program that allows you to customize font size, type, look, icons, etc. independant of all other settings. Gir 'er a try