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A comment on Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K?.

Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by pornel on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @10:47AM (#21453381)
• 1440p (typical for ultrawide) for is a sweet spot for gaming. It's the highest resolution that works well with current generation of GPUs. In 4K gaming is hard, because most 4K monitors don't support high or variable refresh rates, so if the GPU isn't strong enough to consistently hit 60fps at 4K, it'll have to drop all the way to choppy 30hz.

• 4K for text. It really makes a huge difference. If you work with code, and don't care about color reproduction and black levels, then there are very cheap 4K monitors.

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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by mcv on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:22AM (#21453768)
> "4K for text."

Absolutely. I just bought a 4K laptop (also OLED) and I can't believe how incredibly readable very small text is. It's almost unreal how good this looks.

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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by AndreFvchs on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:11PM (#21457311)
Please share the model, thanks.
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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by mcv on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @02:26AM (#21460437)
It's a Thinkpad X1 Extreme, with 4K OLED. The primary downside of the screen is that it's rather shiny and reflective in the wrong light. That apparently comes with non-matte screens. In the right light, it's the best screen I've ever seen.
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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by Trias11 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:54PM (#21458672)
MSI GT76 TITAN (128GB RAM) with 17.3" 4K/UHD and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 / 8GB Screen is at 3840x2160

I use it to render high res panoramic images.

But I know - it not exactly everyone's go to laptop...

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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by ryanmccullagh on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @11:59AM (#21454207)
I wasn't able to find the specs, but do you know if the MacBook Pro is a 4K monitor? Reason I ask is, I notice how amazing the text is on this laptop.
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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by Matthias247 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:24PM (#21454454)
You can find the resolution online. It depends on whether it's a 13" or 15" model. It is less than 4k, but has a higher DPI then 4k desktop screens. The only thing which gets as sharp are the 5k 27" screens - that's likely why Apple decided to make them.
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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by pornel on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:41PM (#21456448)
It is. Apple calls it "Retina".

Whether a monitor looks really crisp depends on a combination of number of pixels, screen size and viewing distance. For 4K monitors the typical size is 27" to get the "retina" quality at normal desk viewing distance.

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Re:Ask HN: New Monitor: Ultrawide or 4K? by perilunar on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @12:00AM (#21459837)
Not quite. More like 3K.

The 15.4" MacBook Pros are 2880×1800, and the 13.3" are 2560×1600 px.

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