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The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

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1680 points etbusch | 12 comments | 19 May 22 12:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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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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cowtools ◴[19 May 22 14:59 UTC] No.31435534[source]▶
besides the fact that "retina display" is a marketing term invented by Apple, I don't really see what the big deal is. I have pretty good vision and I don't notice individual pixels on my 1080p screen. More pixels means more load on the GPU.
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1. hit8run ◴[19 May 22 15:11 UTC] No.31435730[source]▶
1080p !?! Wow I didn’t know that there are professionals out there using such a shitty resolution. You are definitely not the target audience for high quality hardware then I guess.
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2. toper-centage ◴[19 May 22 15:19 UTC] No.31435841[source]▶
That's pointless gatekeeping. Having the most expensive pencil doesn't make you draw better. For most professionals in most fields, more than 1080p is a waste of energy.
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3. jason0597 ◴[19 May 22 15:27 UTC] No.31435957[source]▶
Wait until you see what hardware the OpenBSD developers use... are you going to claim that they aren't professionals?

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20120425065148

https://www.undeadly.org/features/2012/r2k12/P1020598.JPG

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4. dhruvmittal ◴[19 May 22 15:34 UTC] No.31436061[source]▶
While I prefer my personal machines to have 1440p or 4k resolutions, I'm perfectly happy with my work PC's 1080p screen for development and email. I'm hardly watching videos or gaming on that machine, and I don't find that fonts are noticeably sharper at the size that I prefer them on a 15" laptop display.
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5. beepbooptheory ◴[19 May 22 15:35 UTC] No.31436066[source]▶
I hear some people call themselves professionals and don't even use gold-plated HDMI cables.
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7. cowtools ◴[19 May 22 15:47 UTC] No.31436232[source]▶
I am not a professional, I am just a student.

Edit: If I was an artist or something I might care about resolution or color accuracy.

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8. hit8run ◴[19 May 22 22:13 UTC] No.31440826[source]▶
These images are from 2012... That was 10 years ago. lol
9. hit8run ◴[19 May 22 22:16 UTC] No.31440857[source]▶
Finish your studies and then you will get the chance to use better hardware :)

Color accuracy is super important to me whenever I need to design something on the frontend side of things. High resolution is important too because I'm working with my screens. That means that I stare many hours per day in the display. Life is too short for shitty hardware and most professionals in our industry or their companies can definitely afford it.

10. hit8run ◴[19 May 22 22:18 UTC] No.31440880[source]▶
Why use HDMI when there is USB-C or Thunderbolt? As far as I know 4k@60hz is max on HDMI. You are optimising the wrong thing here.
11. hit8run ◴[19 May 22 22:20 UTC] No.31440899[source]▶
You find the screen real estate sufficient? I hate developing on a small screen (especially for the web).
12. hit8run ◴[19 May 22 22:25 UTC] No.31440956[source]▶
Good tooling improves the artists workflow and results in most cases.