Re:Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @01:30AM
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I don't appreciate the natural resolution of my XPS 15's 4k screen because my typical use case is to use an external screen. For that use case, the laptop's own screen is totally irrelevant.
Without an external screen, 4k resolution makes everything too small. But setting scaling on the laptop's screen interacts badly with the external screen, which I use almost all the time and do want at 4k. So I end up with the laptop being that much less usable when I'm using it by itself.
Re:Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops
by ascar on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @02:45AM
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That's actually a software problem and not a hardware one. But it's also one of the main reasons I bought a 1080p laptop instead of 4k one.
Re:Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops
by BossingAround on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:47AM
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The main reason is to get better pixel density. That's what Apple's Macbooks do by default, and it's really georgeous. I couldn't go back to the full resolution and everything being super small.
No one complained that everything had to be magnified 200% to print on the new engines - even though that was going on behind the scenes. Instead, everyone enjoyed the new sharper and crisper printouts. And it was wonderful.
The same is true for displays. When you have a display that can run at 200% scaling, that gives you four times the pixels per character compared to your old 100% display.
Everyone's taste is different, but for myself, give me all the pixels I can get. I don't like pixels and I don't want to see them. I want to see the text and graphics I'm working on. If the display has more pixels to represent those, to the point where I can't even see the pixels any more, that's what I want.