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My last 1080p monitor was around 20 years ago. I have trouble comprehending people still use them regularly.

by nomel 4mo ago

AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
People also use usable mice instead of touchpads, and they put the "ctrl" key where Apple thinks a useless "fn" should be. All kinds of things happen outside Apple world. To me, it's more about what I'm used to. I have a perfectly fine several years-old monitor, so why should I throw it away?
- nomel 4mo ago
  I'm a PC user with a work MacBook. I was talking about my PC.
afavour 4mo ago
A very quick search yielded Dell selling 1080p laptops today: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-15-laptop/spd/dell-dc15250-laptop https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-15-laptop/... It is very, very common. Just not in the Mac world.
- kbolino 4mo ago
  It's also the corporate standard for generic cubicle workstation monitors, though it's unusual to find a Mac in such a place anyway.
- import 4mo ago
  It’s very common for the people who got their last monitor 8 years ago.
  - bigyabai 4mo ago
    It's still the most common resolution for people using desktop monitors today, according to: https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/w...
    - SSLy 4mo ago
      Also for gaming too: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ 1920 x 1080 51.89% 2560 x 1440 21.20% 3840 x 2160 5.00%
      - carlosjobim 4mo ago
        OS font rendering doesn't matter for gaming.
mschuster91 4mo ago
The problem is, as soon as you are not on a Mac but Linux or Windows, you are in for an awful, truly awful lot of pain. HiDPI support is a mess because even in the rare case applications are made with HiDPI in mind they are not tested on HiDPI machines. Other way around, most Mac software is not tested how it behaves on inferior external monitors.
- AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
  What kind of windows programs are these? HiDPI is more than a decade old. A desktop application, no matter what OS it is, should always be tested with different scaling factors.
  - mschuster91 4mo ago
    Ham radio software, both open-source and commercial, is a big thing, and so is many an in-house development in many businesses.
    - AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
      Any particular program? GNU Radio seems perfectly fine.
  - dcrazy 4mo ago
    Oh my sweet summer child. Even software being written TODAY isn’t being tested in HiDPI. Win32 still makes it difficult.
    - AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
      I’m not your child, and that’s false, it’s literally one key to change in the settings. That allows you to select the exact scaling factor, not macos’s “more text”/“less text”.
      - dcrazy 4mo ago
yjftsjthsd-h 4mo ago
Then let me blow your mind:) One of my daily drivers is an ex-Chromebook at 1366x768. Granted, it's also physically smallish so the DPI isn't quite as low as a macbook would be with those pixels, but still. And that's a touch cramped but it's fine.
- incanus77 4mo ago
  I'm reading on that resolution right now! MacBook Air 11" running Linux that I use as a quick hacking/reading machine in bed.
  - deleted 4mo ago
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My last 1080p monitor was around 20 years ago. I have trouble comprehending people still use them regularly.

by nomel 4mo ago

My last 1080p monitor was around 20 years ago. I have trouble comprehending people still use them regularly.

People also use usable mice instead of touchpads, and they put the "ctrl" key where Apple thinks a useless "fn" should be. All kinds of things happen outside Apple world. To me, it's more about what I'm used to. I have a perfectly fine several years-old monitor, so why should I throw it away?

nomel 4mo ago
I'm a PC user with a work MacBook. I was talking about my PC.

afavour 4mo ago

A very quick search yielded Dell selling 1080p laptops today: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-15-laptop/spd/dell-dc15250-laptop https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-15-laptop/... It is very, very common. Just not in the Mac world.

kbolino 4mo ago
It's also the corporate standard for generic cubicle workstation monitors, though it's unusual to find a Mac in such a place anyway.
import 4mo ago
It’s very common for the people who got their last monitor 8 years ago.
- bigyabai 4mo ago
  It's still the most common resolution for people using desktop monitors today, according to: https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/w...
  - SSLy 4mo ago
    Also for gaming too: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ 1920 x 1080 51.89% 2560 x 1440 21.20% 3840 x 2160 5.00%
    - carlosjobim 4mo ago
      OS font rendering doesn't matter for gaming.

mschuster91 4mo ago

The problem is, as soon as you are not on a Mac but Linux or Windows, you are in for an awful, truly awful lot of pain. HiDPI support is a mess because even in the rare case applications are made with HiDPI in mind they are not tested on HiDPI machines. Other way around, most Mac software is not tested how it behaves on inferior external monitors.

AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
What kind of windows programs are these? HiDPI is more than a decade old. A desktop application, no matter what OS it is, should always be tested with different scaling factors.
- mschuster91 4mo ago
  Ham radio software, both open-source and commercial, is a big thing, and so is many an in-house development in many businesses.
  - AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
    Any particular program? GNU Radio seems perfectly fine.
- dcrazy 4mo ago
  Oh my sweet summer child. Even software being written TODAY isn’t being tested in HiDPI. Win32 still makes it difficult.
  - AndriyKunitsyn 4mo ago
    I’m not your child, and that’s false, it’s literally one key to change in the settings. That allows you to select the exact scaling factor, not macos’s “more text”/“less text”.
    - dcrazy 4mo ago

yjftsjthsd-h 4mo ago

Then let me blow your mind:) One of my daily drivers is an ex-Chromebook at 1366x768. Granted, it's also physically smallish so the DPI isn't quite as low as a macbook would be with those pixels, but still. And that's a touch cramped but it's fine.

incanus77 4mo ago
I'm reading on that resolution right now! MacBook Air 11" running Linux that I use as a quick hacking/reading machine in bed.
- deleted 4mo ago
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