Who makes 16" 3:2 displays?

HUAWEI MateBook 16 has one so somebody must make them.

Surface Laptop also has a 15" variant.

It's possible they weren't able to source 16" panels in that ratio? (at a price that worked). I wouldn't exclude a different ration screen in the future maybe?

Is your favourite handheld also the Gameboy Advance?

- Sent from my Icecream maker

What makes that screen ratio non professional?

While I found your question funny, I must say that a 4:3 (or 3:2) ratio allows for better use of screen estate for a lot of work cases. I write a some music arrangements, and being able to view a larger vertical part of a score without having it zoomed out is a big benefit.

I also prefer it for programming. I cap my lines at either GNU lines or 92, meaning horizontal space is never a problem. Getting more vertical space in all Windows when I split my screen in 4 or 1+2 is nice.

A 16:9 screen is too short when working on 16:9 video.

It is really nice to have video span, if not the entire viewport, most of it, with the timeline down below. 16:10 gives you a nice bit of control area.

But 3:2 is even better. Hell, give me a 5:4 screen—I live and die in Figma all day, working on mobile app mockups. Which are very tall, obviously, and get awfully small on these HDTV-ish aspect ratios.

You could just rotate your monitor 90 degrees and change the orientation from landscape to portrait in the desktop.

Somewhat hard to do with a laptop

It's a laptop.

So?

https://preview.redd.it/would-putting-my-laptop-like-this-ha...

:)

Except this still isn’t great with a 16:9 aspect ratio…well I guess 9:16 now…display.

It’s still too damn narrow. Yeah, I get plenty of vertical space, but then the Figma chrome gets jammed into teeny little strips along the sidebar.

This solution does better in Adobe applications, where you can break panels out of the parent window…but still, just, no, 16:9, too skinny, too gawky, give me closer to the Golden Ratio.

Writing (including code and word documents) tends to push the vertical bounds of screenspace rather than horizontal.

Media (widescreen cinema) is more horizontal.

Side-by-side is horizontal.

I'd like three terminals or code editor windows side by side. I don't care about the vertical space as much.

exactly. even just comparing a diff side by side sucks on most laptops.

Their "screen deep dive" [0] mentions this bit:

> There was no existing panel that satisfied all of these needs, so we instead developed a semi-custom LCD display module with BOE, the same panel maker we use for the Framework Laptop 13. The “semi” part is that we customized the backlight for higher brightness and liquid crystal chemistry for better contrast and color gamut while leveraging an existing TFT mask set to avoid needing to pay a few million dollars in tooling fees.

So probably the existing TFT masks all where 16:9 and 16:10?

I personally would also have preferred a higher aspect ratio screen (my favorite laptop is still the IBM Thinkpad X41, which had a 4:3 display), but the other features are probably more important than... 8% more screen height.

[0] https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-16-deep-dive---disp...

It's a good guess but i don't think it's true

Check here under Display

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-MateBook-16-AMD-Review-...

It's a 16 inch 3:2 display. The Display model is listed as "BOE TV160DKT-NH0 X-Rite i1Pro 2"

Same BOE they claim to be working with

From the newsletter: "There was no existing panel that satisfied all of these needs, so we instead developed a semi-custom LCD display module with BOE, the same panel maker we use for the Framework Laptop 13. The “semi” part is that we customized the backlight for higher brightness and liquid crystal chemistry for better contrast and color gamut while leveraging an existing TFT mask set to avoid needing to pay a few million dollars in tooling fees." Looks like they had to make some compromise. P.S.: I personally like what they did and especially the resolution of 2k, for me the best compromise between work, video and gaming. I will for sure get one (when they support enough memory for my needs).