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15.6″ 1920×1080 FHD, Matte Finish
It's 2021 ffs...
Can we get a high res display 9 years after apple's first retina macbook?
It's 2021 ffs...
Can we get a high res display 9 years after apple's first retina macbook?
All of those additional pixels require additional battery and CPU power to drive. By contrast, black-levels, backlight-uniformity, color accuracy, and pixel fill can be improved without trade-offs. Most laptops have a lot of room for improvement in these areas, and IMO they lead to a better picture overall versus increasing the resolution. As a bonus, you also get to side-step a ton of unfortunate software weirdness.
And while adding HDR and increasing the refresh rate does come with battery/CPU/software trade-offs, I still think they're more worthwhile upgrades than merely jacking up the resolution on a small screen.
I have no idea whether the Pangolin screens are terrible on these metrics too, I'd just like to see a lot less focus on resolution. It's actually really hard (impossible?) to find an HDR panel that isn't 4K, and IMO that's a shame. We live in a world where Samsung phones run below their native screen resolution by default in order to conserve battery[1], which makes no sense whatsoever. If the native resolution of the screen was lower to begin with, battery life would be even better, and visuals would be improved overall due to lack of scaling!
1: https://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-lowers-default-scree...
200dpi DPI is fantastic for working with text. The clarity you get is more relevant for text than HDR, wide gamut, or even wide viewing angles. I would heartily recommend it even if you only stare at a terminal all day.
I work with text, and the difference is night and day.
I'm sure there are a lot of economic issues that I don't understand but here is my request:
. all the ram possible . pretty good CPU w/ lots of cores . a good keyboard (no numpad) . a good 4k-ish screen . a big battery (if you make this laptop, ppl will optimize the software to make it last) . decent speakers . is it too much to ask for a decent GPU?
Overall: please just make a premium laptop and charge a lot. There are more ppl on the Internet like me than you realize.
Things no one cares about:
. thin
The warranty experience was great as a tech would always come to our office to perform replacements but I don't get how Dell makes any money on those with so much RMAs.
If their QA is so bad on their most premium line, I shudder to think what the experience must be like with their cheaper devices.
Many people seem to think MacBooks have exceptionally high build quality and they have m̶o̶s̶t̶ all of the types of issue you listed:
• Overheating https://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2020/06/24/apple-mac...
• thermal throttling
• sleep issues (IIRC they’re hard to keep awake while trying to use them closed and docked to an external monitor in “clamshell mode”)
• trackpad issues (subjective and they do seem to have the largest trackpad fanbase, but some have complained they’re too large and easy to brush while typing; perhaps the palm rejection isn’t good enough for everybody)
• charging issues (they charge differently through ports on one side vs. the other and some have complained they build up charges that can be felt when picking them up)
• HDMI issues
• keyboard issues (butterfly keyboards destroyed by dust, Apple delayed addressing this for years IIRC).
Plus staingate. Plus actively anti-repair design and a user hostile OS.
Edits: bullets and paragraph separation, found the last type of issue (overheating)
Yeah, that particular phrase kind of irks me. Most people who don't use Apple products simply call that 'with the lid closed.'
Sign me up. I don't care if my computer fits in a manila envelope
Things no one cares about:
. thin
I guess you adapt to whatever you've got, but at this point I'm spoilt by being able to easily slide my thin laptops in and out of my backpack. Makes going through airport security that much easier.
That you can fit your laptop into a bag doesn't seem to me to be a reason to be happy with thick laptops.
They were best buy for the buck. Although, appl beat them out on chassis - alum frame is BEST - but the guts of S76 is top notch.
The only thing I am pissed at S76 is, is that they changed their vid interface for screens on the same laptop - so I couldnt replace a dead machine with a good machine based on their screen redesign
and they wanted $90 for a fn power receptacle....
Else, I support them they are like 60% apple evil
System 76 is more of a "lifestyle" brand that targets Linux users. They're one of many resellers that just rebadge Clevo laptops and market to different segments.
Nothing against Clevo, mind you, but there's no reason you should limit your shopping to them versus the more established brands if they don't meet your requirements.
Just seems like they're doing more than slapping a distro on a third-party machine and profiting from the brand, especially considering issues most people seem to have with Linux computers in a practical sense.
I do admit that in today's world a laptop is almost useless (I have nowhere to go!), and I plan to transition to a real desktop sometime soon, since it's just so much more powerful and useful overall.
Most of the display manufacturers are building 4K for marketing reasons (few people outside of gamers really know about WQHD) but those displays consume too much power to replace FHD across the board. An intermediate resolution between FHD and 4K might be more expensive at this point.
LG, which makes their own laptops and displays, did it right with their 2560 x 1600 laptop panels.
Mine are on Arch & dwm, one with a 4k scaled down 150% (or 133% depending on my mood), for me it mostly works. But it would be much nicer to just not worry about it.
Also note the Apple Retina screens were great due to more features apart from just resolution.
Battery life is slightly worse but it’s not linear: the GPU has more pixels to push but usually that’s in a highly optimized rendering path so things like text don’t take 4x as long to render - and on macOS the extra resolution meant it could drop the extra work of subpixel rendering entirely. In the decade since this became common, GPUs and CPUs have become more than enough faster to cancel out the difference.
16 hours on the new m1 macbook.
If anything, I would prefer to have more battery life and less memory usage than super-minuscule pixels.
I think there may be some PC manufacturers doing this completely wrong. I've seen some Dells that are downright ridiculous. A high dpi computer should display large and readable fonts by default without any magnification. Look at any MacBook as an example.