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I had a 1600x1200 T42p and loved that thing to death too. My fav laptop ever though was the original 15" MacBook Retina from 2012. I pre-ordered mine the hour i

I had a 1600x1200 T42p and loved that thing to death too. My fav laptop ever though was the original 15" MacBook Retina from 2012. I pre-ordered mine the hour it came available, as I had been waiting years for a good IPS HiDPI laptop. I had never even owned a Mac before that. Mine was one of the first off the line where the display had a temporary-burn-in (very long ghosting for any pixels that are fixed for more than 30 secs or so) issue. I got that replaced no-hassles under warranty a couple of months in. My eyes were good enough then that I was running it at native 2880x1800 resolution (no HiDPI business), and I was finally happy with the resolution I could get while mobile (I had been using a 30" 2560x1600 as my workstation monitor for a couple of years at that point, and this was an upgrade over even that!) These days I use a 55" 4K OLED and a 32" 6K Pro Display XDR as my workstation monitors. For anyone considering this, I'd say wait for the 40" 4K OLEDs to come out (or wall mount the 55" and set your desk half a meter or so away from the wall). I sit just a little more than arm's length away from mine, and that's great for immersive flight simulator experience, but not so great for normal daily desktop use. (I'm keeping mine on my desk so I can keep using it along with powered sit-stand.) As for why it's not so great; it's mostly a resolution issue. 4K isn't enough these days, and isn't high enough DPI for the amount of my field of view it takes up at this distance. I would also be quite happy with an 8K OLED that's, say, 55" or 65"... but only when I can also get one that drives at 120FPS, so that will be a bit of a wait.

easygenes 5y ago
Oh yeah, and I'm running the Pro Display XDR through a USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) cable. Plugging that into the VirtualLink port on an Nvidia RTX 20xx card is the easiest way to get the native 6K @ 60hz with 10bpc on Windows. These days you can get these cables at lengths up to 3 meters, which is nice. There's also this weird VR headset cable which works a treat if you need something longer or have a graphics card without the VirtualLink port: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001290509128.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001290509128.html You need to use Brigadier to download the Boot Camp drivers to get the display brightness controls widget. Unfortunately, there isn't an option for Linux.
easygenes 5y ago
Just a few more thoughts on setting up a high-megapixels workstation: My ideal would probably be something similar to what Linus has set up. He uses long cables from a nearby closet, so even when the workstation fans are blasting he doesn't hear it. For now, I use 2 and 3 meter cables plugged into a mid tower sitting on the far side of my desk on the floor. For why I'm not doing the workstation-in-another-room approach: The 4K@120fps HDR OLED relies on HDMI 2.0 cables, which are only recently available at 3 meter lengths. Linus is using a not-commercially-available prototype optical HDMI repeater to get longer cabling. For normal use the system is near-silent and at full blast it's below the noise floor with a headset playing something at a reasonably low volume (and not distractingly loud even if I just have the headset on with nothing playing).
- def_true_false 5y ago
  There are commercially available cables that do HDMI (and DisplayPort, etc) over fiber. I've seen these from PremiumCord and also some Chinese ones on Amazon. https://www.amazon.de/s?k=premiumcord+hdmi+2.1+kabel https://www.amazon.de/s?k=premiumcord+hdmi+2.1+kabel
  - easygenes 5y ago
    Thanks! It had been a while since I looked for them. Glad to see they've made it to market now.

easygenes 5y ago

Oh yeah, and I'm running the Pro Display XDR through a USB-C 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) cable. Plugging that into the VirtualLink port on an Nvidia RTX 20xx card is the easiest way to get the native 6K @ 60hz with 10bpc on Windows. These days you can get these cables at lengths up to 3 meters, which is nice. There's also this weird VR headset cable which works a treat if you need something longer or have a graphics card without the VirtualLink port: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001290509128.html https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001290509128.html You need to use Brigadier to download the Boot Camp drivers to get the display brightness controls widget. Unfortunately, there isn't an option for Linux.

easygenes 5y ago

Just a few more thoughts on setting up a high-megapixels workstation: My ideal would probably be something similar to what Linus has set up. He uses long cables from a nearby closet, so even when the workstation fans are blasting he doesn't hear it. For now, I use 2 and 3 meter cables plugged into a mid tower sitting on the far side of my desk on the floor. For why I'm not doing the workstation-in-another-room approach: The 4K@120fps HDR OLED relies on HDMI 2.0 cables, which are only recently available at 3 meter lengths. Linus is using a not-commercially-available prototype optical HDMI repeater to get longer cabling. For normal use the system is near-silent and at full blast it's below the noise floor with a headset playing something at a reasonably low volume (and not distractingly loud even if I just have the headset on with nothing playing).

def_true_false 5y ago
There are commercially available cables that do HDMI (and DisplayPort, etc) over fiber. I've seen these from PremiumCord and also some Chinese ones on Amazon. https://www.amazon.de/s?k=premiumcord+hdmi+2.1+kabel https://www.amazon.de/s?k=premiumcord+hdmi+2.1+kabel
- easygenes 5y ago
  Thanks! It had been a while since I looked for them. Glad to see they've made it to market now.