I'm assuming the screen you are thinking of buying is one that's come out of a laptop that's identical to yours? If it's the entire screen/backlight/top-case/hinge assembly, it'll need to come from the same model as yours, but the resolution probably won't matter.
If it's just the screen/backlight unit that needs to fit into your top-case and hinge assembly, you'll need to check the exact dimensions, not just match the laptop model number - often they use one model number, but have several screen size options, with more or less plastic frame around the screen. I've even seem laptops with a top-case assembly that sticks out further than the bottom case (by about 1cm) on all sides...
Either way, I'm not sure how 'plug and play' the adaptor to screen interface is in laptops - the graphics hardware might not detect a lower resolution screen. That might mean it doesn't work at all, or it could just mean it offers the higher resolution as an option.
BTW, running an LCD screen at less than it's real (physical) resolution looks really crappy - why were you deliberately running at a lower resolution with nasty jagged scaling artefacts?
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Date: 2010-02-22 10:51 am (UTC)If it's just the screen/backlight unit that needs to fit into your top-case and hinge assembly, you'll need to check the exact dimensions, not just match the laptop model number - often they use one model number, but have several screen size options, with more or less plastic frame around the screen. I've even seem laptops with a top-case assembly that sticks out further than the bottom case (by about 1cm) on all sides...
Either way, I'm not sure how 'plug and play' the adaptor to screen interface is in laptops - the graphics hardware might not detect a lower resolution screen. That might mean it doesn't work at all, or it could just mean it offers the higher resolution as an option.
BTW, running an LCD screen at less than it's real (physical) resolution looks really crappy - why were you deliberately running at a lower resolution with nasty jagged scaling artefacts?