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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
by 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 ago2K 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 agoSince 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.