I was always taught that switching from the LCD monitor's native resolution guaranteed a blurry or distorted picture. My last laptop had a max resolution of 1366 x 768, and I found lowering the resolution on that machine was problematic, as predicted. However, with my new Dell, which has a native resolution of 1920 x 1080, lowering the resolution does not cause a degradation of picture quality (so long as I maintain the proper aspect ratio). I have it set to 1366 x 768 now and it looks great. I increase the resolution for some games, and none of these choices causes me problems.
So...is the advice about native resolution something that only applies to machines that have few choices, when it wouldn't be generally advisable to lower resolution on a widescreen aspect laptop or desktop LCD? Or, to put it another way, I'm not sure I can discern why it's been shouted from the rooftops never to change the native resolution for fear of a terrible picture.
I'm truly surprised and pleased with my new laptop's Full HD resolution flexibility.
So...is the advice about native resolution something that only applies to machines that have few choices, when it wouldn't be generally advisable to lower resolution on a widescreen aspect laptop or desktop LCD? Or, to put it another way, I'm not sure I can discern why it's been shouted from the rooftops never to change the native resolution for fear of a terrible picture.
I'm truly surprised and pleased with my new laptop's Full HD resolution flexibility.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win8
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Inspiron 7520
- CPU
- Intel Core i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
- Motherboard
- HM77
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD Graphics 4000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 7730M 2GB
- Browser
- Chrome
- Antivirus
- Defender