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It's funny how your opinion contrasts against mine. For what I've seen, displays have become a commodity and that's a good thing. I can go buy any kind of disp
by yason 13y ago
It's funny how your opinion contrasts against mine.
For what I've seen, displays have become a commodity and that's a good thing. I can go buy any kind of display, choose a size and I'm probably fitted with more pixels than I ever need, the panels are neat, flicker-free and flat, and the best part of it is that they cost next to nothing. You buy a laptop and you choose the size based on how much hardware you want to carry around — not because you need this huge screen because all laptop screens are "good enough" as you mentioned: I haven't had a laptop with less than 1440x900 for... a little less than a decade. And the resolution has never been inadequate for browsing, coding, drawing, writing and watching movies which is what I mostly do.
This is completely the opposite of what we had in the 90's when 15" CRT was the baseline, you were always a bit short of resolution and you never had the money to buy that huge one-cubic-meter-in-size display that could do your 1280x960 at 60Hz or something, and for which you probably had to upgrade your graphics card and probably your PC too. That totally, totally sucked. One could live with the basic resolution and screen size but I remember the agony of something better always being almost at reach. These days screens are something you don't think about twice. Everything is, again, dreadedly good enough, and if you need something professional you can get that too it probably won't cost you the price of a small car.
In the last 10 years or so I haven't considered once whether I should soon upgrade to a "better" display or to a laptop with a "better" screen. That's bliss, IMHO.
- mixmastamyk 13y agoI had a Dell laptop at work with 1900x1200 in 2003. Things have definitely stagnated.
- masklinn 13y agoThey haven't stagnated, they've regressed. 1900×1200 dells were 15". 24" 1900×1200 desktop displays are now almost all "full HD", which cuts 120px at the bottom and doesn't add a thing. IBM had >4k displays in 2001 (the T220 was 3840×2400, 4k is 3840×2160. And the T220 was a 22" monitor too, not a 40" TV), try to find even as good today.
- mixmastamyk 13y ago1920! Yep, I thought about that monitor when writing my comment, but it was late and didn't want to research it. ;)
- venomsnake 13y agoI had one of IBM-s P70 bought second hand in 2001. It was amazing - it had 1600x1200 on 60Hz refresh and it was able to push gaming resolutions (1024x768) at 120Hz horizontal refresh . I still cannot find as smooth gaming experience. We have regressed indeed.
- kyriakos 13y agoIts really hard to find a decent 15inch laptop with high resolution screen - unless its targeted to gamers. For some reason a few years ago the PC industry decided that 720p is good enough as if people only watch movies on their laptop. Trying to squeeze a full featured IDE in 720p is like looking at the screen through a key hole.
- some_guy_there 13y agoThings are getting better slowly. The next line of Vaio Flip will have a 2880x1620 display. Full HD is also quite common in 13" range now.
- vidarh 13y agoGet a phone with a higher resolution screen, and maybe your opinion will change. My phone is 4.7" with a 1280x720 display. I now prefer to use my phone for a lot of reading over my 1920x1080 17" laptop display because the text is so much crisper that the laptop screen is annoying. Even more so the 23" screen I'm writing this on, which seems extremely fuzzy and pixelated. My next phone will likely be a 5" phone with 1920x1080 given current prices/specs for full HD display phones - at that point I expect my laptop and desktops will annoy me even more. Current relatively low end tablets are now starting to get substantially higher resolutions than that.
- ekianjo 13y agoYou're just wasting all your battery life with having so many pixels you never ever see with your eyes on such small screens. Do you feel happy being manipulated by phones manufacturers Marketing? I have a 22'' screen, FUll HD on my desktop and I never complain about it. Maybe you just have a crappy LCD one.
- Terretta 13y ago> so many pixels you never ever see with your eyes Pretty sure that's the point. And it's not a marketing gimmick. When you read a lot, having "print quality" text is an extraordinary enabler.
- ekianjo 13y agoThe point is that it does not make so much of a difference in visual quality but it does impact your GPU performance and your power consumption highly, so the benefit/cost ratio is very, very low.
- DanBC 13y ago> I have a 22'' screen, FUll HD on my desktop and I never complain about it. What do you use it for? Some people need better monitors. I hope my doctor has a nice greyscale screen for looking at xray images.
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