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Samsung readies their own Retina display laptop

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Geek.com rewrite of an engadget.com rewrite about a YouTube video review:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUYlnhDfvlo

The submitter looks less than legitimate as well.

What looks "less than legitimate" about the account? It's been around for over a year.

During its 400 days it's made a staggering 4 comments 1 of which was on its own submission. It almost exclusively submits geek.com and extremetech.com both of which are Ziff Davis properties and they are not at all shy about targeting and spamming HN - ExtremeTech have at least one employee that spams here [1] and had at least one puppet auto-submitting stories [2], and then there's the mysterious and probably automated 'help' from evo_9 [3] and ukdm [4] who have very long histories of heavily submitting these two sites. Finally we have adeelarshad82 [5] who exclusively submits Ziff Davis properties (PCMag.com is one too).

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mrsebastian

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441016

[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=evo_9

[4] http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ukdm

[5] http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=adeelarshad82

That last dude is an undisclosed social media 'marketing' clown for ... Ziff Davis:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/adeelarshad82

Sell it as a portable display not a laptop. Give it connectivity via a variety of connectors (not just HDMI). It would be far more useful than an iPad. Keep dreaming, right?

Although I might not agree with the iPad comparison, that's a really great idea I'd buy into.

I would love a high resolution 13" or 15" external (secondary) display for my laptop.

I hope they aren't infringing on any patents this time!

Rounded Corners: ✔

Rectangular Screen: ✔

Black Bezel: ✔

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Prior Art: (does not apply)

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Infringement: ✔

(*it's not the rounder-corners that gets you, it's the combination of that with the additional "dress")

Really ? I expected the incredibly dumb "Apple patented round corners" meme from somewhere like Engadget not HN.

It's getting pretty prevalent here too, unfortunately...

The fun part only happens if they get in trouble for those specific attributes. That honestly wouldn't surprise me.

What can you do. In a court case as convoluted as Samsung V. Apple, you just have to expect these kinds of things to rub off on the populace. If the user doesn't understand the case itself, they're going to go off with their gut on whatever bias they pick up from external news sources, which means more and more people will inevitably perpetuate the "apple patented pinching and rectangles" meme. Hacker News isn't impregnable.

For those who are looking forward to having a laptop display with a high raw pixel count (the MBPr can only be run at 1920x1200 IIRC without hacks) - I guess this is it, and it looks like it'll run Win8 too.

Props to Samsung. Hope they don't call it a "cornea display" or something mocking.

Its not really a hack to run rMBP's at > 1920x1200, just a cli tool. Apple doesn't expose it in the UI anymore, thats basically it.

Windows 7 on the rMBP defaults to 2880×1800 resolution.

rMBP can already quite easily be run at a high raw pixel count resolution (higher than this Samsung laptop in fact, as the article points out.) Obviously, it runs at this raw resolution by default when booted into Windows, so I'm not sure what your point is. As it turns out, it can run Windows 8 as well!

Shouldn't Microsoft be getting the props in this case? Samsung makes great displays (they make the MBPr display too) but the OS is the limiting factor in actually running them at the native resolution.

The operating system has to be adapted for one, but the biggest problem would be the app developers: they have to make changes to their pixel assets to suit the new resolution. Apple has the same problem, they are just aggressive about pushing developers in the right direction. Its a classic chicken/egg problem, especially when considering PC diversity (its obvious where Apple is going, its not obvious where the Window hardware providers are going).

Anyone know what the color gamut is on this? Matte and high res are great, but color gamut is make or break for me. It seems Retina is at 99%, which is really impressive for a laptop.

AFAIK gamut can not be represented as a percentage. Where are you getting that info?

Really? I've always seen it as a percentage of colors that can be displayed (sRGB). Of course, a graph would be better, but according to Dell, my U2410 has 110% color gamut and it looks pretty amazing to me.

As for the Retina, I may have to take that back. First article claims the Retina has 99% vs. 71% for the previous generation:

http://cdtobie.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/color-gamut-of-retin...

But Anandtech says it got worse (67%):

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-w...

I'm assuming calibration has something to do with it, or somebody tested it incorrectly or with inferior equipment.

As I've decided not to buy another apple laptop, I welcome this news.

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