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A few years ago i purchased a laptop with a widescreen format. I believe its 17 inch.
I run it at 1280x800 resolution, and have the font increased to 125%
However if i read on the screen for a significant amount of time. I get pain in my eyes.
The only difference in the laptop monitor and my desktop, aside from lcd vs crt, is that the desktop is a 19" standard 4:3 ratio, it runs in 1024x768 at about 105% font size.
Personally i can tell no difference in the size of the fonts overall. i feel as if the crt screen fonts are actually smaller.
I can use my desktop computer literally all weekend and never once have eye problems.
Could it be related to the refresh rate or something else?
I thought perhaps a pair of reading glasses would help with my laptop, but i still have eye pains.
My concern actually stems from me wanting to replace my heavy crt monitor with a lighter flat panel lcd. im looking at a 19" widescreen, actually.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009091
Does anyone here experience eye pain/strain from their lcd monitors?
And when i say, the setups are simular, i play MUDs alot, and i use all the same colors as my desktop computer. infact i just copied the zmud folder over completely, and registered it for my laptop. Like i said, ive never experienced these problems on my crt, just my lcd.
Also, as far as the setup, my desktop monitor sits roughly 2 to 3 feet infront of me, and up from eye level, which hits roughly the line that is the bottom third division of the screen. However, my laptop sits with eyelevel near the top 3rd division line, simply because it sits on the desk, as opposed to in a special section of my computer desk.
I forgot to mention that my laptop sits farther away then my desktop monitor, almost completely at arm's length, which is almost 3 feet for me, and almost half again as far as my crt sits away, simply because of the design of my desk.
thanks in advance for any advice you guys may have.
I run it at 1280x800 resolution, and have the font increased to 125%
However if i read on the screen for a significant amount of time. I get pain in my eyes.
The only difference in the laptop monitor and my desktop, aside from lcd vs crt, is that the desktop is a 19" standard 4:3 ratio, it runs in 1024x768 at about 105% font size.
Personally i can tell no difference in the size of the fonts overall. i feel as if the crt screen fonts are actually smaller.
I can use my desktop computer literally all weekend and never once have eye problems.
Could it be related to the refresh rate or something else?
I thought perhaps a pair of reading glasses would help with my laptop, but i still have eye pains.
My concern actually stems from me wanting to replace my heavy crt monitor with a lighter flat panel lcd. im looking at a 19" widescreen, actually.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009091
Does anyone here experience eye pain/strain from their lcd monitors?
And when i say, the setups are simular, i play MUDs alot, and i use all the same colors as my desktop computer. infact i just copied the zmud folder over completely, and registered it for my laptop. Like i said, ive never experienced these problems on my crt, just my lcd.
Also, as far as the setup, my desktop monitor sits roughly 2 to 3 feet infront of me, and up from eye level, which hits roughly the line that is the bottom third division of the screen. However, my laptop sits with eyelevel near the top 3rd division line, simply because it sits on the desk, as opposed to in a special section of my computer desk.
I forgot to mention that my laptop sits farther away then my desktop monitor, almost completely at arm's length, which is almost 3 feet for me, and almost half again as far as my crt sits away, simply because of the design of my desk.
thanks in advance for any advice you guys may have.
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