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Eyestrain advice

FNiss
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Hello,

I stumbled upon this forum and am looking for guidance on finding a new laptop that doesn't cause eyestrain. I have using the same laptop for a few years with great success - HP G71-340US which comes with the Mobile Intel Series 4 Express Chipset and even picked up a couple as spares, upgrading with SSDs and memory and faster Core-2 CPUs to make them useful. I am a programmer and stare at the screen for hours and hours and have never experienced a nit of eyestrain from this machine - however, it is huge (17.3") and heavy (10 pounds with a long life battery) and while I work for a Fortune 50 company that would buy me whatever I want, I have not been able to find a new notebook from ANY manufacturer that does not give me immediate eyestrain after 5 to 10 minutes.

For years, I thought it was the HP Brightview (LED backlit) screen that was so great - so I did the ultimate experiment and swapped (yes, takeapart) the screen unit in a Toshiba Core i-5 laptop. I turned it on and experienced immediate eyestrain, meaning it was the Intel Chipset and not the screen on the Toshiba laptop that was causing the issues.

I have tried the Surface Pro - eyestrain.

I was excited when the Surface Book came out - eyestrain.

I have tried all manner of Macbooks - from 2010 to newer Retina models - eyestrain.

I have tried AMD machines with integrated AMD GPUs - eyestrain.

I have tried so many laptops that I've lost count.

Our 21.5 2010 iMac? no eyestrain - I can look at it for hours. My guess is that it has integrated AMD graphics.

My work setup - three Dell 1908FP LCD monitors driven by AMD Radeon HD 6350? ZERO eyestrain.

My home setup - old EP45-UD3P core-2 quad desktop with dual Radeon 9800 GPU with two Westinghouse 19" LCD monitors? zero eyestrain.

iPhones? I have a 6 and 6S with zero eyestrain.

The symptoms are as pernicious as they are odd: I get a headache within 5 or 10 minutes that lasts all day and doesn't go away until the following morning.

I cannot be the only one with this issue. I welcome any ideas on new laptops that I can test.

Thanks,

FLN

Below is a snapshot of my Windows 10 driver on my HP laptop that works with my Intel 4 Series integrated chipset HP laptop with zero eyestrain.

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idata
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Hi FLN: Thank you very much for joining the Intel® Graphics communities.

 

 

In regard to your inquiry, I just wanted to let you know that Intel® does not manufacturer laptops, basically what Intel does is to provide the processor to companies like Dell or HP so they can build and customize their products by adding or removing some features on their laptops.

 

 

Now, in order to provide additional information on this subject, on the links below you will find some recommendations to avoid eyestrain, probably you already read that information, but here is the link just in case:

 

https://www.quora.com/Which-laptop-screen-can-reduce-eye-strain-Which-laptop-has-best-screen-for-eyes-And-what-else-I-can-do-to-protect-my-eyes-from-strain https://www.quora.com/Which-laptop-screen-can-reduce-eye-strain-Which-laptop-has-best-screen-for-eyes-And-what-else-I-can-do-to-protect-my-eyes-from-strain

 

http://www.allaboutvision.com/cvs/irritated.htm http://www.allaboutvision.com/cvs/irritated.htm

 

 

On this link you will find a list of laptops that are recommend to avoid negative impact on eyesight:

 

http://laptopmedia.com/top-laptop-pwm-ranking-rated-by-negative-impact-on-eyesight/ http://laptopmedia.com/top-laptop-pwm-ranking-rated-by-negative-impact-on-eyesight/

 

 

I also encourage all the peers on this forum that if they have additional details or suggestions on this regard to share those details on this thread.

 

 

NOTE: These links are being offered for your convenience and should not be viewed as an endorsement by Intel of the content, products, or services offered there.

 

 

Any further questions, please let me know.

 

 

Regards,

 

Alberto R

 

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FNiss
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Hi Alberto R,

I understand that Intel does not manufacture the laptops that bear the Intel Graphics chipsets; my challenge continues to be finding a combo that does not produce eyestrain. As I said in my post, I know within a few minutes if a particular unit will cause issues.

I would be willing to take part in any focus groups by Intel in the future to help further study this issue.

Thank you for the reply,

FLN

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idata
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FLN: You are very welcome.

 

 

Just to let you know, on the following link you will find additional details about this subject:

 

/thread/53309 https://communities.intel.com/thread/53309

 

 

We will do further research on this matter in order to try to provide the details that you are asking for, as soon as I get any updates I will post all the information on this thread.

 

 

Any questions, please let me know.

 

 

Regards,

 

Alberto R

 

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idata
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FLN: I just wanted to let you know that I received an update in regard to the research we were doing on this case and the thing is that unfortunately we do not have a list of devices known to cause or not eye strain, furthermore this is a situation that Intel is currently investigating. The best thing to do in this case will be to post this question on the existing thread /thread/53309 https://communities.intel.com/thread/53309 in order for other peers to provide further suggestions.

 

 

Any questions, please let me know.

 

 

Regards,

 

Alberto R

 

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