Recently I borrowed someone's Acer Nitro 5, 17" laptop. The screen was perfect for me. I've been looking for a new monitor, I'm not sure how this screen translates to monitors. I've mostly had matte screens on my laptops and monitors. I hate glossy screens with a passion and I find most are too bright.
I tried to get the specs of the laptop to see if I could find a monitor based on them, but I guess because it's a budget machine, all they say is IPS, matte, full HD. I found this review on notebookreview.
"The Nitro 5 has a 17.3-inch display that operates natively at 1920x1080, resulting in a pixel density of 127 PPI. Acer does not sell any alternative displays for the Nitro 5, for reference."
"The IPS panel achieved an average maximum luminosity of 364 cd/m² according to X-Rite i1Pro 2, which is considerably brighter than all our comparison devices. Its black value is on the high side at 0.3 cd/m² though, resulting in a 1,357:1 contrast ratio. The latter is still impressive, but it falls short of the display in the Legion Y540, which has a better black value but dimmer display."
"We also like that the panel does not use pulse-width modulation (PWM) to regulate brightness, and it suffers from no obvious backlight bleeding. However, it also has terrible response times for a gaming laptop display and is well behind the competition."
I did check and 1080 at 24" is 108ppi, and 1440 at 27" is 108ppi, which is lower than the Nitro at 127ppi. Would I be happy with a lower ppi, I don't know.
I tried to get the specs of the laptop to see if I could find a monitor based on them, but I guess because it's a budget machine, all they say is IPS, matte, full HD. I found this review on notebookreview.
"The Nitro 5 has a 17.3-inch display that operates natively at 1920x1080, resulting in a pixel density of 127 PPI. Acer does not sell any alternative displays for the Nitro 5, for reference."
"The IPS panel achieved an average maximum luminosity of 364 cd/m² according to X-Rite i1Pro 2, which is considerably brighter than all our comparison devices. Its black value is on the high side at 0.3 cd/m² though, resulting in a 1,357:1 contrast ratio. The latter is still impressive, but it falls short of the display in the Legion Y540, which has a better black value but dimmer display."
"We also like that the panel does not use pulse-width modulation (PWM) to regulate brightness, and it suffers from no obvious backlight bleeding. However, it also has terrible response times for a gaming laptop display and is well behind the competition."
I did check and 1080 at 24" is 108ppi, and 1440 at 27" is 108ppi, which is lower than the Nitro at 127ppi. Would I be happy with a lower ppi, I don't know.
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