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petilon | 2 years ago

This Samsung [1] is only 14" and yet has 2880x1800 display. That's 200% resolution. Anything less than 200% is not interesting to me. iPhone with Retina display debuted in 2010. Isn't 13 years enough time for PC laptops to catch up?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPJWYQSY/

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lousken|2 years ago

It's ~190ppi and retina is about 200 with laptops. What's the big deal? Also the lower the resolution is the higher fps can be hit in games.

petilon|2 years ago

This 16 inch laptop has 2560x1600 resolution. If you set it to 200% then that's the equivalent of 800 pixels which is what you expect in a 13 inch laptop. For a 16 inch laptop there's not enough pixels.

Why set it to 200%? Because as Steve Jobs has explained, the only resolution that looks good after 100% is 200%. Then 400%. If you set it any in-between scale (such as 150% or 300%) then you will have display artifacts, such as horizontal lines appearing to have different widths when they are all in fact set to 1px.

WhyNotHugo|2 years ago

Don't forget that lower FPS also means less battery usage.

sspiff|2 years ago

What does "200%" resolution mean?

I prefer displays with a resolution where I don't have to do any scaling honestly.

petilon|2 years ago

200% means double the resolution of the "previous era" (1990s and 2000s), which was around 96 dpi. Modern applications will not see any scaling artifacts.

Applications from the "previous era" that are not HighDPI-aware will get scaling... each application pixel will occupy 4 physical pixels.

KingOfCoders|2 years ago

I guess you're lucky that Apple and Samsungs have laptops that you like.

petilon|2 years ago

...and Asus... and Dell.. among others