One thing I have noticed on some of the cheaper laptops is that the screens don't seem to be of very high quality. At least compared to my desktop LCDs that I've used. Mainly, some of them seem to have a pretty small horizontal and vertical viewing angle.
That said I'm not sure at what price you need to go to in order to get a nice LCD. Maybe it was just that laptop I tried though, who knows, I've only used a laptop like once in the past several years.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw "Celeron" too, but who knows, it might actually be decent, it was released fairly recently.
Personally I like checking out Anandtech's CPU bench DB when researching a CPU's performance, but they didn't have anything for that Celeron model when I checked a couple of days ago.
I may be wrong but I think that might only apply if the smaller screen has a smaller resolution. e.g., if you run a game at 1024x768 on a 15" monitor and a 100" monitor, the frame rate will end up being the same, but if you run the game at 1920x1080 it will be lower.
But on a laptop the battery life should last longer on the smaller screen, all other things being equal.
Yeah, I think that's one of those things they really don't tell you when you go to buy a computer or monitor but a lot of people might be interested in knowing.
My mom always said the text on their old 15" LCD monitor was hard to read. With this new 19" monitor, it's the same res (1024x768 I think), but due to the bigger screen each pixel is bigger so the text and everything else ends up being bigger.
Pixel density / PPI is the term I think.
And bigger screen doesn't always mean bigger text; to my eye, my 24" LCD has about the same PPI as their old 15" LCD.
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That said I'm not sure at what price you need to go to in order to get a nice LCD. Maybe it was just that laptop I tried though, who knows, I've only used a laptop like once in the past several years.
Personally I like checking out Anandtech's CPU bench DB when researching a CPU's performance, but they didn't have anything for that Celeron model when I checked a couple of days ago.
http://anandtech.com/Bench/CPU/2
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/511/Intel_Core_i3_Mobile_i3-4005U_vs_Intel_Mobile_Celeron_Dual-Core_877.html
But on a laptop the battery life should last longer on the smaller screen, all other things being equal.
My mom always said the text on their old 15" LCD monitor was hard to read. With this new 19" monitor, it's the same res (1024x768 I think), but due to the bigger screen each pixel is bigger so the text and everything else ends up being bigger.
Pixel density / PPI is the term I think.
And bigger screen doesn't always mean bigger text; to my eye, my 24" LCD has about the same PPI as their old 15" LCD.