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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: 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. PragmaticPulp ◴[19 May 22 15:21 UTC] No.31435870[source]▶
For some people, High-DPI displays are the type of upgrade that you don't notice until you've been using it for a while and have to switch back to the old technology.

I was also fine with lower resolutions for years because that was the only option. After using high-DPI displays for a couple years, I can't stand working on old low-DPI monitors for long periods of time. It's similar to how we were all happy with our mechanical HDD computers for years, but after using an SSD-based machine for a few months you can never go back to slow HDD-based machines.

It's not about seeing individual pixels. It's about the text clarity and reduced fatigue after reading text all day.

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2. layla5alive ◴[19 May 22 15:40 UTC] No.31436129[source]▶
I have a 4k 14" ThinkPad X1 Carbon and I happily use it at 100% scaling.
3. cowtools ◴[19 May 22 15:46 UTC] No.31436205[source]▶
I use a bitmap font such as Unifont If I want the text to look sharper on a 1080p screen. it is useful for programming, not so much documents.

As for hard drives vs SSDs, I can hardly notice the difference in read/write speeds day-to-day. I merely use an SSD because it is more durable in the situation that I drop my laptop.

4. jameshart ◴[19 May 22 17:42 UTC] No.31437758[source]▶
When I use a machine with a spinning rust drive, my brain keeps interrupting me: "Why is this computer clicking?"
5. trelane ◴[19 May 22 23:07 UTC] No.31441355[source]▶
Yeah, this is my biggest gripe about System76 right now. They _used_ to have HiDPI options, but they all seem to have disappeared. :(