On Wednesday 20 July 2011 16:09:58 Stroller did opine thusly: > On 19 July 2011, at 21:47, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... > > Screens; a choice between > > 1920x1080 WLED > > 1920x1080 RGBLED IPS > > > > The IPS screen only comes with an NVIDIA Quadro 2000M with 2GB > > GDDR3, The regular screen comes with these choices of video > > card: > > > > AMD FirePro M5950 Mobility Pro with 1GB GDDR5 dedicated memory > > NVIDIA Quadro 1000M with 2GB GDDR3 dedicated memory > > NVIDIA Quadro 2000M with 2GB GDDR3 dedicated memory > > > > The price difference is substantial. Considering that my usage > > is > > nothing more stressful than KDE eye-candy and mplayer, is the > > IPS > > screen worth the extra price? > > I *believe* that the difference between IPS screen and the other may > manifest itself in things like viewing angle, accuracy or > consistency of colour reproduction (for photographers / graphics > designers) and clarity of viewing in daylight. > > This thread is 5 years old, so there may well have been developments > since: > http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/44510-what-ips-screen.html > > This may not matter at all to you, and maybe you're just asking > about the GPU, but I thought I'd address the question you actually > posed. ;)
Another admin just had his new notebook delivered with an IPS screen, so we sat for 3 hours inspecting it while an installer removed Windows. It's true that the IPS does have a fantastic viewing angle. I only started seeing bothersome colour shifts at about a 70degree angle viewed from the 10 o'clock position. Which is all great except that no-one in their right mind looks at a notebook from that acute angle. And I've never needed hugely accurate colour reproduction in 20 years, so I doubt that will change either anytime soon. My current machine is 1920x1200 with a regular display, and it's plenty good enough for me so I can't honestly say I see a need for the latest and greatest. But there's always a chance someone who's used one for a while will report significantly reduced eye strain or similar (impossible to detect this in the first short trial), hence my original question. I'm tending to think the ATI and a regular screen is the way forward, now to google how good the linux driver support is (my last ATI GPU was 6 years ago) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
