I thought these are targeted at professionals and not media consumption... I can't see myself going back to 16:9 or 16:10
Just seems like a dumb move. They even seem to have the space with those hideous bezels from 2010. There are tons of similar 16:10 options. It's a saturated market, while there are only a small handful of 16inch 3:2 laptops
- written from a Huawei Matebook 16
> There was no existing panel that satisfied all of these needs, so we instead developed a semi-custom LCD display module with BOE, the same panel maker we use for the Framework Laptop 13. The “semi” part is that we customized the backlight for higher brightness and liquid crystal chemistry for better contrast and color gamut while leveraging an existing TFT mask set to avoid needing to pay a few million dollars in tooling fees.
So probably the existing TFT masks all where 16:9 and 16:10?
I personally would also have preferred a higher aspect ratio screen (my favorite laptop is still the IBM Thinkpad X41, which had a 4:3 display), but the other features are probably more important than... 8% more screen height.
[0] https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-16-deep-dive---disp...
Check here under Display
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-MateBook-16-AMD-Review-...
It's a 16 inch 3:2 display. The Display model is listed as "BOE TV160DKT-NH0 X-Rite i1Pro 2"
Same BOE they claim to be working with
Media (widescreen cinema) is more horizontal.
I'd like three terminals or code editor windows side by side. I don't care about the vertical space as much.
It is really nice to have video span, if not the entire viewport, most of it, with the timeline down below. 16:10 gives you a nice bit of control area.
But 3:2 is even better. Hell, give me a 5:4 screen—I live and die in Figma all day, working on mobile app mockups. Which are very tall, obviously, and get awfully small on these HDTV-ish aspect ratios.
It’s still too damn narrow. Yeah, I get plenty of vertical space, but then the Figma chrome gets jammed into teeny little strips along the sidebar.
This solution does better in Adobe applications, where you can break panels out of the parent window…but still, just, no, 16:9, too skinny, too gawky, give me closer to the Golden Ratio.
I also prefer it for programming. I cap my lines at either GNU lines or 92, meaning horizontal space is never a problem. Getting more vertical space in all Windows when I split my screen in 4 or 1+2 is nice.
- Sent from my Icecream maker