> 15.6”(39.62cm) FHD (1920x1080) 16:9 panel, 3.2mm I've been disgusted with this stuff for well over a decade. I remember how excited I was when Microsoft show

> 15.6”(39.62cm) FHD (1920x1080) 16:9 panel, 3.2mm I've been disgusted with this stuff for well over a decade. I remember how excited I was when Microsoft showed they can see and made a glitchy 2-in-1 with bright, high-resolution 3:2 touch screen, Surface Book. When was that? Ah, 2015. Then, some Chinese noname knock-off with a Snapdragon SoC copied it, probably literally bought the same panels; I was tempted by the low price point but reasoned it's useless for work and I might as well buy a 16:9 tablet for fun. Then, I think it was some Dell super-thin premium ultrabook? Overheating Huawei with rare, subpar resolution? A few fashionable ultrabooks on underpowered Intels when I wanted a Ryzen 5800H but apparently Intel negotiated their AMD versions don't get good screens? Then, Apple got close with 2021 Macbook Pro. I bought Apple, because it was the first one without crippling flaws and unabashed contempt for the user, as it unfortunately happens almost every time. It also conspicuously rectified many other mistakes of Apple itself: the cable, the charging port, the thinness and thin corners fetish, the cooling, the keyboard, well, you remember it. It wasn't a laptop of my dream by any measure, which is more like "a bit thinner X440p, made with modern affordances and fuller utilization of the volume and lid space". (No, X1 ain't it). But it was good enough to consider that it's someone's dream. And it's a honor to use dream products in principle. Anyway, the point goes beyond displays. This all convinced me that independent laptop makers absolutely can produce devices with displays of almost arbitrary ratio and resolution and indeed very close to my dream in other respects, but they won't because they have no ambition and no interest in their user's use cases; their drive is exhausted by pandering to some self-identifying nerds and selling a few thousands of "configurable" junk on a generic OEM Shenzhen chassis to the suckers. They do not eat their own dog food. Or perhaps, less cynically, there's just too few people like me and even they'll rather get a good-enough Macbook.