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The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

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1680 points etbusch | 2 comments | 19 May 22 12:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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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. erikpukinskis ◴[19 May 22 15:13 UTC] No.31435757[source]▶
Same. I have an old school 2013 MBA and a fresh MBP for work and I don’t really notice the difference.

Of course I can _see_ the difference. The MBP looks really nice. But when I sit down to code or watch a movie on the MBA, I have pretty much the same experience as I do on my work machine.

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2. newaccount74 ◴[19 May 22 17:38 UTC] No.31437701[source]▶
I use a setup with multiple screens, some of them Retina, some of them not (the lack of high resolution external displays is a pity...).

The difference in resolution is immediately obvious, but once I start working I forget that the displays have a different resolution.

Things like aspect ratio are much more important, and I think that 3:2 is the best aspect ratio for work. 16:9 and even 16:10 has always felt a bit cramped in the vertical, 3:2 feels perfect.