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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by _tulpa on Friday October 20, 2017 @05:31AM (#15514554)
No you just want fancy things. Whatever, that's fine.

But it's not a requirement for 'most developers' - in fact the ones I know with high resolution laptops don't want them, they're just annoyed by lingering issues with UI scaling and tiny text. I can't think of a sane reason for having font sizes so small that you need 4k to display text properly. Text is plenty crisp at 1080.

Also this is a laptop. More pixels means shorter battery life.

Maybe what you really need is a desktop.

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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by guywhocodes on Friday October 20, 2017 @06:44AM (#15514775)
I find it's only crisp enough when I use bitmap fonts, I prefer how vector fonts look on 4K but I'll still buy 1080p for the battery life.
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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by lmm on Friday October 20, 2017 @07:48AM (#15514997)
> Text is plenty crisp at 1080.

It looks so much better at 2000. Of course you can get by with 1080 - hell, there've been times when I got by with 600 - but when you can see more code and read it more easily, it's easier to get on with development.

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