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 disp

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...