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My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
241 points secure | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 10:13 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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accrual ◴[31 Oct 25 18:49 UTC] No.45775352[source]▶
> My ideal MacBook would probably be a MacBook Air, but with the nano-texture display! :)

I agree on the nano-texture display having used one in person for a little bit. It's sort of like an ultra fine matte texture that isn't noticable while using it, but is noticable compared to other devices in the same room. I hope it becomes a more standard option on future devices.

That said, I've used Thinkpads with matte displays and while not as fine, they mostly have the same benefit.

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christophilus ◴[01 Nov 25 00:26 UTC] No.45778178[source]▶
I’d love an air with a high density display.

My mom has an M1 air, and its resolution is not great. Everything looks a bit blurry compared with my 4K Dell XPS my wife’s MacBook Pro m4 display. I guess the air’s native resolution means it has to do fractional scaling.

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Tagbert ◴[01 Nov 25 00:44 UTC] No.45778273{3}[source]▶
The Air has about 218dppi screen, but your wife might have a non-integer resolution selected.
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1. weiliddat ◴[01 Nov 25 12:05 UTC] No.45781013{4}[source]▶
Yeah the default doesn't do a 1:1 display to pixel ratio.

Just to be pedantic it is integer scaled (from 1440x900 to 2880x1800 but then resampled down to the native resolution of the MBA 2560x1600 via something better than bilinear).