I am considering getting a laptop with a 14.1 " screen, however I am worried that if i am on it for 8 hours straight that it would be worse on my eyes than a 15.4" screen. I like the lightness of the 14.1 inch in my lap, but do not want to strain my eyes too much. I think that the font size is the same though isnt it? Thats all that matters beside resolution, which should be the same.
2007-01-30 05:48:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
The fonts are scaled to DPI (Dots per inch) so the smaller screen will have smaller fonts if resolution is same.
This can be easily fixed though, with "Display Properties/Advanced Tab" this will let you set larger fonts.
You will have one more benefit with the smaller screen the battery will last longer.
2007-01-30 05:55:38 · answer #1 · answered by askMahesh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's sorry that the answer is NOT. The LCD screen manufacturing technologies currently makes each display unit (the LCD-LED pixel module) on the product's screen smaller and smaller. And this make sense that a very large screen resolution can be fit into a quite small LCD monitor panel.
Good example: a ACER TravelMate 3210 Series mobile computer featured with 14.1" WXGA TFT LCD screen can display a resolution setting up 1280x800 pixels; yet for a SAMSUNG 510N 15" TFT LCD monitor it only shows 1024x768 pixels as the maximum resolution.
Here you can see that ACER TravelMate 3210 Series have the bigger and wider resolution, and thus: the font size on the screen smaller and not equal to the standard ratio on a normal 17" LCD monitor(although with a closer resolution 1280x1024 pixels).
It's better that you take some time and chance to compare a 14.1" and 15.4" LCD monitor's performance, please consider the colour saluration/colour gamma, contrast, brightness and response rate of the products.
Consider too, the environment you want to work with your computer and LCD monitor, make sure that you wouldn't let LCD monitor keep reflecting background light to your eyes, and it would be convenience for you to read words and vivid pictures anytime.
Don't set the screen resolution from maximum default value to a lower value, it makes a user harder to see everything on the blurred screen, this is the disadvantage of LCD technologies.
Hopefully you can find a LCD monitor which fulfills your requirement.
Best regards.
2007-01-30 06:17:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the resolution is the same between the screens, they you're going to have more DPI (Dots Per Inch) on the smaller screen. And Yes the Fonts will be smaller (about 9%) so a font that was 11mm tall on a 15.4" screen would be around 11mm tall on the 14.1 screen.
2007-01-30 05:55:32 · answer #3 · answered by Master J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, screen size and resolution both play a factor in determining "font size."
IF both the 14.1" and 15.4" screens are set at the same resoulution (1024X768) then a 12 point arial will be SLIGHTLY bigger on the 15.4" screen.
How much bigger? Approximately 10% larger.
However, if you turn down the resolution on the 14.1" screen to 800X600, the same 12 point ariel will be larger than on the 1024X768 15.4" screen.
If the only significant difference between the two units is screen size, go for the bigger screen.
2007-01-30 05:55:11 · answer #4 · answered by jbtascam 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes if you print the text out, but not between different sized screens. Monitors have little dots called pixels. The bigger the monitor, the bigger the pixels (although some larger monitors add more pixels as well). That variance is what causes the difference between different sized monitors. With print, it's all the same size because they are using a universal standard that's been around since the printing press.
2007-01-30 06:01:43 · answer #5 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you are using a program such as word to do your wordprocessing then select the zoom level to 100% or actual size. this will put the page at the same size as the document your set up for using (ie if you started working on a document and the default was on A4 paper then it will be the same size on a 14 inch monitor as on a 23 inch wide screen monitor.
2007-01-30 08:16:06 · answer #6 · answered by rak1982npton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reveal length makes no distinction... Smaller displays purely emit much less UV and lightweight into our eyes. as long as you're taking commonplace breaks and stare way from a reveal for a pair of seconds each jiffy you would be wonderful.
2016-12-16 17:03:23 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋