very poor viewing angle on R60 LCD

[mnezor]

Hallo to everybody. I recently bought this thikpad! and I am very happy about this.

The LCD that comes with this thinkpad is a 15'' SXGA+ TFT. It's great ! I mean sharp picture ,excellent resolution ... but ... I am very disappointed with the viewing angle of this LCD. The smallest move of my head and all the colors change... especially black. If I turn into a black background the bottom of the LCD is never real black... something like grey...or bright black
I don't know .. is this normal ?

[ZaZ]

I see quite a few notebooks, unfortunately the viewing angles on most are not that great unless you have the FlexView of course. Laptop screens are never going to be as a desktop screen.

[FRiC]

Unfortunately, this is normal. Matte LCD screens have very poor vertical viewing angle.

[mnezor]

Unfortunately, this is normal. Matte LCD screens have very poor vertical viewing angle.

...Sad to hear this... thank you very much for your reply !

Now is it possible to change my LCD so to put a flexview LCD ?

Thank you very much!

[FRiC]

I don't know if you can put in a Flexview screen, since they were only for T series.

You could try tilting up the screen more. Since the screen is designed to be viewed perfectly straight on, if your seating is relatively tall, you might be "looking down" at the screen. Also, I notice you have a 15" screen, the wash out problem is worse on 15", since you can't be completely straight to the entire screen all the time, so the edges of the screen will always have wrong or faded out colors.

[wanderlust]

I read a review of the R series online, and they claimed the screen was revolutionary... not in terms of the image but reliablility. The screen is supposedly very strong and designed for office, rather then multimedia use. Took their word for it, wouldn't know though. I always dangle my computer from the screen so I hope they were right