Surface Laptop 4

Re:Surface Laptop 4 by walrus01 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:47PM (#26802737)

I care about both simultaneously - in my experience the common 1920x1080 laptop panels also have poor color rendition, poor brightness and overall image quality, in addition to not being a suitable dpi. I can see the blockiness and jagginess in fonts and GUI at 1920x1080 native.

And scrolling vertically for anything is painful on a small 16:9 screen. The macbook happens to have both 16:10 aspect ratio and a higher quality LCD.

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by diffeomorphism on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:13AM (#26803176)

But lower resolution than a 4k 16:9 display (and no oled). So the question is why to prefer lower res 16:10 (lower in both directions) to 16:9? You just have strictly more screen, which seems better.

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by agloeregrets on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @06:32AM (#26805171)

4k gets you sharper text but the distance of the display away from you makes for diminishing returns in sharpness combined with horrific battery life and still 16:9. The macbook is very much a happy middle for normal use but I'm sure a Samsung Galaxy Book 4K is the best movie laptop ever

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Re:Surface Laptop 4 by walrus01 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @02:14AM (#26803536)

I was comparing laptops in the price range mentioned above, MacBook air vs 1080p laptops. If you go up to around $2000, then the windows 10 laptops start to have 4k screens.

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