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My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
241 points secure | 4 comments | 31 Oct 25 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jofzar ◴[01 Nov 25 05:13 UTC] No.45779416[source]▶
> I don’t notice going back to 60 Hz displays on computers. However, on phones, where a lot more animations are a key part of the user experience, I think 120 Hz displays are more interesting.

I'm always so jealous of these people, 60hz is just so bad for me now and even make me a bit motion sick.

I can see it in everything, moving the window, scrolling, the cursor.

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adastra22 ◴[01 Nov 25 11:44 UTC] No.45780911[source]▶
How do you watch movies or TV without throwing up?
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1. weiliddat ◴[01 Nov 25 12:00 UTC] No.45780980{3}[source]▶
Major difference is one you're watching something without interacting with it and the other is responding to your action; one you have your gaze relatively still, taking in the entire frame, the other your eyes are tracking an object as you interact with it via some sort of input device.

In tracking motion your eyes/brain can see improved motion resolution (how clear the details are in an object moving across the screen) up to 1000Hz.

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2. adastra22 ◴[01 Nov 25 19:03 UTC] No.45784348[source]▶
Your body & nervous system processing has input lags on the order of 100ms and variance on the order of 10’s of ms though.
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3. rogerrogerr ◴[01 Nov 25 19:08 UTC] No.45784403[source]▶
But your eyes can track a moving object (like a car, or a ball, or a cursor or text on a scrolling webpage); they don’t stay 100ms behind it.
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4. adastra22 ◴[02 Nov 25 00:05 UTC] No.45786701{3}[source]▶
That is predictive motion isn't the same thing.