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Retina displays. Not sure they were hyped (depends on the definition of hype of course), but I could never set my eyes on regular low DPI displays (e.g. 1080p a
by oefrha 6y ago
Retina displays. Not sure they were hyped (depends on the definition of hype of course), but I could never set my eyes on regular low DPI displays (e.g. 1080p at 27’’) again, ever, after working with one for a few days.
- elliekelly 6y agoEarlier this week I turned on an old MacBook Pro (circa 2010ish) and I couldn't believe we ever used to stare at such pixelated screens!
- Rapzid 6y agoHaving just upgraded to a 4k 27" I have to agree and am left wondering why I've been sticking to 1080p 24" non-HDR for the past few years.. But the monitors are more mainstream now.. Have a 24" 1080p second screen which is good for checking content on, and it really just keeps reinforcing how good hdpi is.
- tehlike 6y agoI bought a lenovo legion with 1080p screen after having used a macbook for a long time. I had to return it. It was fairly disturbing to read text even on a small screen such as a laptop screen. I ended up getting Gigabyte Aero 15 with 4K display. It was a great decision.
- stplsd 6y agoI don't understand this. 1080p on 15 screen is still pretty decent, I think Windows by default set scaling on such ppi.
- tehlike 6y ago4k does make a difference if you are reading text, or doing coding.
- burntoutfire 6y agoI have a Macbook with retina at home and a ThinkPad without one at work. Yeah, retina makes text a little nicer, but overall it's not so big deal for me. It may be because, when I'm coding at work, I'm usually pissed off by a couple different things at least, so a less than perfect font is not even on my radar.
- medlyyy 6y agoYou're also closer to a laptop screen. After using a 14" 1080p laptop I definitely would never go lower than 1440p at that size again.
- IshKebab 6y agoHow has nobody said "the iPhone". Hell it was called the Jesus phone before it came out. You don't get more hyped than that but it definitely lived up to it.
- LocalPCGuy 6y agoI personally immediately go into settings to get the maximum space out of a screen rather than using it at retina resolutions (for computer displays, not phone size). I guess I just prefer more pixels to prettier ones.
- m463 6y agoI agree, with one caveat - some old software just makes everything super-tiny. It's a little like when widescreen monitors came out and people were trying to figure out how to play their 4x3 games.
- majewsky 6y agoI was hit hard by this when I casually booted up Warcraft 3 in a fit of nostalgia and realized the only resolution options were 800x600 and 1024x768.