What is your actual use case apart from technology fetishism?
8K is the point in which at the monitor size I use, individual pixels would be too hard to see. They're already a bit hard to see at 4K, but at 8K it'd be perfect.
I try not to be overly sapien-centric when making assumptions about my fellow HN readers.
Marshall now thinks that the mantis shrimp sees colors in a unique way. Rather than discriminating between millions of subtle shades, its eye actually does the opposite, collapsing all the varied hues of the spectrum into just 12.
From Science: "A Different Form of Color Vision in Mantis Shrimp"
The mantis shrimps (stomatopods) can have up to 12 photoreceptors, far more than needed for even extreme color acuity. Thoen et al. conducted paired color discrimination tests with stomatopods and found that their ability to discriminate among colors was surprisingly low. Instead, stomatopods appear to use a color identification approach that results from a temporal scan of an object across the 12 photoreceptor sensitivities. This entirely unique form of vision would allow for extremely rapid color recognition without the need to discriminate between wavelengths within a spectrum.
Why? Is that an OS problem?
You have to trade off distortions for bluriness and you can't avoid both of those artifacts at the same time. The higher your pixel ppi, the less noticeable any scaling artifacts will be though.
Do we have lots of scalable UI elements that expect to line up with raster images a certain way on most operating systems?
It's a shame (for me, who can't afford HiDPI displays to replace his current ones, and would have difficulty pushing all those pixels even if he could) that Apple removed subpixel anti-aliasing. :(
Manufacturers can also justify making pretty big screens with that many pixels. Samsung's 8k TVs are 80-something inches. Since it's that big, you can sit further back, making up for any loss in pixel density, and still have a huge picture.
But with OLED.
The 120 Hz i don’t understand however i am not a gamer.
Try setting your refresh rate to 30hz for an hour.
What people mostly notice is latency not refresh rate.
If you don’t mind me asking how old are your friends?
What blind test did you use?
I added mouse trails to verify people were actually noticing the FPS not just artifacts from the rendering pipeline.
It's noticeable for me on every single mouse movement— no special effort is required to move the cursor 'quickly'.
You can show multiple mouse images at 60 fps which shouldn’t trick people if they can actually see 90 vs 60 vs 120 fps.
I'm constantly switching between my M1 Air and work M2 16 Pro and refresh rate has never bothered me.
It's useful for smoother scrolling amongst other things.
I'd like a display that has parity to my laptop but is just bigger so I can fit more on it.
Previously, I actually often felt motion sickness when scrolling through code on small 60hz laptop screens. Had no problems with larger (> 23") desktop screens, though.