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> and most importantly: do NOT opt for the 4k screen Good advice for any laptop purchase. You will burn through battery driving that and the pixel density is m

by ziml77 5y ago

> and most importantly: do NOT opt for the 4k screen Good advice for any laptop purchase. You will burn through battery driving that and the pixel density is much higher than necessary. Yes, 1920x1080/1200 is slightly too low when it comes to pixel density at 15", but it's still very reasonable and with decent eyesight you won't have to worry about any of the mess of DPI scaling.

ayushnix 5y ago
It's safe to say that never again will I buy a laptop with a display which can't scale properly to integers (2 or higher). If it's a 15 inch laptop, 4K is the absolute minimum resolution I'm going for. Even after using a 27 inch 4K display with an abhorrent 163 PPI , I can't imagine using a display with lesser PPI. No matter what tricks (anti aliasing) you use, the fonts will look like shit compared to fonts on a retina display.
csdvrx 5y ago
> > and most importantly: do NOT opt for the 4k screen > Good advice for any laptop purchase. You will burn through battery driving that and the pixel density is much higher than necessary. Hard disagree. I use my thinkpads on AC most of the time, at home. The crisp fonts in a terminal is a game changer. That has spoiled me: the bare minimum I can work with now is 2k. Likewise for OLED: except the X1 nano which I use in the daytime, I can't see myself ever using a non OLED screen, so much that I would be ready to pay a huge premium for OLED in a Thinkpad with the X1 nano form factor.
- Melatonic 5y ago
  2K is only a few more pixels than 1920 x 1080 ? I find the sweet spot minimum for my 27" desktop monitors to be 1440P. Anything that and above looks great.
  - filoleg 5y ago
    > 2K is only a few more pixels than 1920 x 1080 ? Given you said you use 1440p monitors yourself, I think there is a misunderstanding somewhere here, because 2K is just a less commonly used term for 1440p. And 1440p is definitely a bit more than just "a few more pixels" compared to 1080p (iirc around 78% more).
    - ziml77 5y ago
      Since when is 2K used to mean 1440p? 1440p 16:9 gives a horizontal resolution of 2560px. That's more than what is considered 2K, which is generally either 1920px or 2048px.
      - filoleg 5y ago
        > Since when is 2K used to mean 1440p? No idea, since I haven't seen the term 2K being used much at all in the wild. So I simply googled that term, and it seems to be overwhelmingly used to refer to 2560x1440.

by ziml77 5y ago

ayushnix 5y ago

It's safe to say that never again will I buy a laptop with a display which can't scale properly to integers (2 or higher). If it's a 15 inch laptop, 4K is the absolute minimum resolution I'm going for. Even after using a 27 inch 4K display with an abhorrent 163 PPI , I can't imagine using a display with lesser PPI. No matter what tricks (anti aliasing) you use, the fonts will look like shit compared to fonts on a retina display.

csdvrx 5y ago

> > and most importantly: do NOT opt for the 4k screen > Good advice for any laptop purchase. You will burn through battery driving that and the pixel density is much higher than necessary. Hard disagree. I use my thinkpads on AC most of the time, at home. The crisp fonts in a terminal is a game changer. That has spoiled me: the bare minimum I can work with now is 2k. Likewise for OLED: except the X1 nano which I use in the daytime, I can't see myself ever using a non OLED screen, so much that I would be ready to pay a huge premium for OLED in a Thinkpad with the X1 nano form factor.

Melatonic 5y ago
2K is only a few more pixels than 1920 x 1080 ? I find the sweet spot minimum for my 27" desktop monitors to be 1440P. Anything that and above looks great.
- filoleg 5y ago
  > 2K is only a few more pixels than 1920 x 1080 ? Given you said you use 1440p monitors yourself, I think there is a misunderstanding somewhere here, because 2K is just a less commonly used term for 1440p. And 1440p is definitely a bit more than just "a few more pixels" compared to 1080p (iirc around 78% more).
  - ziml77 5y ago
    Since when is 2K used to mean 1440p? 1440p 16:9 gives a horizontal resolution of 2560px. That's more than what is considered 2K, which is generally either 1920px or 2048px.
    - filoleg 5y ago
      > Since when is 2K used to mean 1440p? No idea, since I haven't seen the term 2K being used much at all in the wild. So I simply googled that term, and it seems to be overwhelmingly used to refer to 2560x1440.