[Mallrat]

Hey--

I went to the Apple Store today and I was trying to decide if I like the 15 inch or the 17 inch better...

And for some reason the 15 inch screen seemed sharper.... easier to read... I think I like the high resolutino better...

on the 17 inch, I think it goes too high and it doesn't look as sharp for some reason as the powerbook.... and when I tried to reduce it to 1024 by 768 it had black bar on either side because it's widescreen...

Anyone else notice this or agree or think I'm crazy?

Thanks.

[mathew_m]

Originally posted by daredevil:
Hey--

I went to the Apple Store today and I was trying to decide if I like the 15 inch or the 17 inch better...

And for some reason the 15 inch screen seemed sharper.... easier to read... I think I like the high resolutino better...

on the 17 inch, I think it goes too high and it doesn't look as sharp for some reason as the powerbook.... and when I tried to reduce it to 1024 by 768 it had black bar on either side because it's widescreen...

Anyone else notice this or agree or think I'm crazy?

Thanks.

You're crazy. The only thing I can think of is that the 17" screen settings were off. No way should the 15" screen appear sharper or better. Perhaps you need glasses. The 17" resolution is much higher thus text will appear smaller and if anti-aliasing is set too high then it might appear blurry. Apple still needs to work on getting OS X font appearence as sharp as 9 however.

[alien]

I've been using the 17" iMac for a while, and I think it's a great screen. I haven't tried the 15" though. Note that I had to use the SuperCal screen calibrator to be completely happy. The screen looked much better with my own custom profile.

The calibration process can be a little tricky if you don't know much about color theory, but SuperCal has excellent instructions. It's important not to "over calibrate" the gamma curve, but to concentrate on getting the right curve in the darker tones. (I know, this was geeky!)

[bstieritz]

Originally posted by daredevil:
Hey--

I went to the Apple Store today and I was trying to decide if I like the 15 inch or the 17 inch better...

Dude,

are you crazy?

Go for the 17 inch. Did you even have to ask??

Sheesh . . .


cheers,
brian

[Javahead]

I must be crazy as well, because the 17" iMac in our Apple store doesn't look as good as the 15" iMac. The colors were a bit washed out and the fonts on the Apple.com page were pixelated and hard to read.

One thing I noticed is that font smoothing is set to "Stanard - Best for CRT". I changed it to Medium, but it didn't seem to make that much of a difference, though.

[Simon]

Originally posted by Javahead:
I must be crazy as well, because the 17" iMac in our Apple store doesn't look as good as the 15" iMac. The colors were a bit washed out and the fonts on the Apple.com page were pixelated and hard to read.

One thing I noticed is that font smoothing is set to "Stanard - Best for CRT". I changed it to Medium, but it didn't seem to make that much of a difference, though.

I have a 17" iMac. I'd say its screen is very good, but...

- the factory settings for color aren't very good. Take SuperCal and generate a new ColorSync profile. The colors are much richer and nicer afterwards.

- it seems contrast gets worse quickly, when you aren't looking straight at the screen. Use the iMac's capability to change the screen's tilt angle easily so that you look perfectly straight at it. That helps me a lot.

[Cipher13]

At uni, they have a bunch of 17" iMacs, and I find the screens on each of them to be superb... and keep in mind, I'm not an LCD fanboy.

[Dell Switcher]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by daredevil:
[B]Hey--

I went to the Apple Store today and I was trying to decide if I like the 15 inch or the 17 inch better...

And for some reason the 15 inch screen seemed sharper.... easier to read... I think I like the high resolutino better...

on the 17 inch, I think it goes too high and it doesn't look as sharp for some reason as the powerbook.... and when I tried to reduce it to 1024 by 768 it had black bar on either side because it's widescreen...

Anyone else notice this or agree or think I'm crazy?


After switching from high end 19" CRT with my Dell computer to an iMac 17, I never regretted my decision. Using 1152 x 720 provides excellent resolution and better than my CRT which has dpi of 24.
I found the 15" screen too small.

By the way, there is a 1024 by 768 stretched setting in which there is no side black bars.

I would recommend the 17" iMac for resolution and larger screen.

[Javahead]

Originally posted by Dell Switcher:
Using 1152 x 720 provides excellent resolution and better than my CRT which has dpi of 24. [/B]

I thought the 17" iMac had a native resolution of 1440x900.

[Mac Zealot]

Maybe he has vision problems?

The imac's text is smaller