Isn't it about time we had a good thread on LCD monitors?

[Holley]

Quake and Quake2 look just fine on my old Work laptop (Samsung GT9000, 2 1/2 years old, 1400x1050 15" screen). DVDs look just fine, too.  I saw a cheap LCD TV today and the quality was just rubbish, though.

Contrast and definition are just fine, apart from when working with photo editing where very light shades don't show right, or when playing low res stuff (though it's not that bad).

On my Miggy I use a 15" Sony Trinitron CRT that looks great, but it cost £200 new - considerably more than most 15" TFTs these days ;-)

[Holley]

The lowest res I've seen a 15" TFT capable of in the last year has been 1280x1024.  I think some people on here have been looking at old or very very cheap monitors (1280x1024 Samsungs cost £135 ATM - not that much!).

[Holley]

@Kenneth - What kind of laptop is it?  My 2 year old one is just a cheap Samsung, and it's display is great - and we have earlier models in the office that are a year older and still work fine (same 15" 1400x1050 display as mine).  

We had problems with some newer ones breaking on the connecting leads through the hinge, and some old ultra-cheap (£400) ones could only do 1024x768, but never fuzzy or any dropped pixels.

[Holley]

Ahh, dunno about the Acer but Toshiba Satellites have always been rubbish and overpriced.  I've supported some, and they all seem to develop annoying faults quickly (touchpad going bad, dropping random bios settings, soundcard breaking, and screens going blank for no apparent reason).  The Samsungs arn't perfect by any stretch, but definaltely better ;-)