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The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

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1680 points etbusch | 5 comments | 19 May 22 12:19 UTC | HN request time: 1.031s | source
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petilon ◴[19 May 22 14:57 UTC] No.31435505[source]▶
Still no retina display option. Steve Jobs made the right call over a decade ago... the only scaling that looks good after 100% is 200%. Any in-between scaling will have display artifacts.

This laptop has 150% scaling. What sort of display artifacts can you expect because of this? Go to a web page with a grid, with 1-pixel horizontal grid lines. Even though all lines are set to 1-pixel, some lines will appear thicker than others.

I blame Microsoft for this mess. Windows supports in-between resolutions (with display artifacts), and hardware manufacturers therefore manufacture in-between resolutions. Framework laptop is limited to what the display manufacturers put out.

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1. ProAm ◴[19 May 22 15:00 UTC] No.31435544[source]▶
It also doesn't have a touchbar and has an excessive amount of ports!
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2. whycombagator ◴[19 May 22 15:07 UTC] No.31435661[source]▶
Just like the new MBPs!
3. Rebelgecko ◴[19 May 22 15:43 UTC] No.31436173[source]▶
Framework laptop actual has fewer ports than MBPs (although they're configurable which is neat, with the caveat that some like expansion ports HDMI are a big drain on battery life, even when inactive)
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4. asoneth ◴[20 May 22 01:27 UTC] No.31442337[source]▶
The HDMI drain surprised me, so I looked up more information, and you seem to be correct:

https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/comments/tekihq/expansion...

https://community.frame.work/t/battery-life/861/24

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5. ProAm ◴[25 May 22 19:22 UTC] No.31509290{3}[source]▶
That is odd, I wonder if its polling for connection?