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I don't understand why they dropped the 3:2 ratio for the larger model. I thought these are targeted at professionals and not media consumption... I can't see

I don't understand why they dropped the 3:2 ratio for the larger model. I thought these are targeted at professionals and not media consumption... I can't see myself going back to 16:9 or 16:10 Just seems like a dumb move. They even seem to have the space with those hideous bezels from 2010. There are tons of similar 16:10 options. It's a saturated market, while there are only a small handful of 16inch 3:2 laptops - written from a Huawei Matebook 16

CrampusDestrus 3y ago
Who makes 16" 3:2 displays?
- ztrww 3y ago
  HUAWEI MateBook 16 has one so somebody must make them.
  - peanuty1 3y ago
    Surface Laptop also has a 15" variant.
rx_tx 3y ago
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?
dankwizard 3y ago
Is your favourite handheld also the Gameboy Advance? - Sent from my Icecream maker
2muchcoffeeman 3y ago
What makes that screen ratio non professional?
- twelvechairs 3y ago
  Writing (including code and word documents) tends to push the vertical bounds of screenspace rather than horizontal. Media (widescreen cinema) is more horizontal.
  - echelon 3y ago
    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.
    - locusofself 3y ago
      exactly. even just comparing a diff side by side sucks on most laptops.
- perardi 3y ago
  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.
  - Sunspark 3y ago
    You could just rotate your monitor 90 degrees and change the orientation from landscape to portrait in the desktop.
    - bhaney 3y ago
      Somewhat hard to do with a laptop
    - IshKebab 3y ago
      It's a laptop.
pbmonster 3y ago
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---display https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-16-deep-dive---disp...
- contrarian1234 3y ago
  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-Multimedia-laptop-impresses-with-its-Ryzen-7-CPU.575022.0.html 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
xeus2001 3y ago
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).

CrampusDestrus 3y ago

Who makes 16" 3:2 displays?

ztrww 3y ago
HUAWEI MateBook 16 has one so somebody must make them.
- peanuty1 3y ago
  Surface Laptop also has a 15" variant.

rx_tx 3y ago

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?

dankwizard 3y ago

Is your favourite handheld also the Gameboy Advance? - Sent from my Icecream maker

2muchcoffeeman 3y ago

What makes that screen ratio non professional?

twelvechairs 3y ago
Writing (including code and word documents) tends to push the vertical bounds of screenspace rather than horizontal. Media (widescreen cinema) is more horizontal.
- echelon 3y ago
  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.
  - locusofself 3y ago
    exactly. even just comparing a diff side by side sucks on most laptops.
perardi 3y ago
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.
- Sunspark 3y ago
  You could just rotate your monitor 90 degrees and change the orientation from landscape to portrait in the desktop.
  - bhaney 3y ago
    Somewhat hard to do with a laptop
  - IshKebab 3y ago
    It's a laptop.

pbmonster 3y ago

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---display https://frame.work/blog/framework-laptop-16-deep-dive---disp...

contrarian1234 3y ago
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-Multimedia-laptop-impresses-with-its-Ryzen-7-CPU.575022.0.html 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

xeus2001 3y ago

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).