Hassam Nasir Social Links Navigation Contributing Writer Hassam Nasir is a die-hard hardware enthusiast with years of experience as a tech editor and writer, focusing on detailed CPU comparisons and general hardware news. When he’s not working, you’ll find him bending tubes for his ever-evolving custom water-loop gaming rig or benchmarking the latest CPUs and GPUs just for fun.
PEnns "HP's MacBook Neo-beating OmniBook X Flip" Hilarious, LOL!! One does need a good joke sometimes. Reply
adamXpeter habermas said: WUXGA is a joke. Much better than 16:9 for computer things. Well, maybe except Excel. Reply
psyconz PEnns said: "HP's MacBook Neo-beating OmniBook X Flip" Hilarious, LOL!! One does need a good joke sometimes. From a quick look at comparison sites between the two, the Neo beats the OmniBook in single core, but has less multicore performance by about the same degree. And, similarly, the Neo wins in GPU performance to about the same degree as the OmniBook wins in percetange terms with the NPU. Also, the OmniBook has twice the ram. "Beating" is maybe a bit of hyperbole, overall, but it's certainly at the very least competitive in terms of hardware capabilities. I would go on about Windows being Windows, and all the negative things that implies; but anyone who knows enough to actually really care about that would probably put Linux right onto either of them, anyway. Reply
Findecanor habermas said: WUXGA is a joke. My last work laptop with Windows had a "4K" 15-inch screen, but I had to set it down to 1920×1200, first because a lot of Windows software don't supporting scaling correctly, second because I had to connect/disconnect and drag windows to/from external screens that were not "retina" — and that was a mess with the higher resolution. The extra resolution had no benefit for me. Also, with downscaling, subpixel text rendering was disabled. So, native 1920×1200 would have been preferable. Reply
psyconz Findecanor said: My last work laptop with Windows had a "4K" 15-inch screen, but I had to set it down to 1920×1200, first because a lot of Windows software don't supporting scaling correctly, second because I had to connect/disconnect and drag windows to/from external screens that were not "retina" — and that was a mess with the higher resolution. The extra resolution had no benefit for me. Also, with downscaling, subpixel text rendering was disabled. So, native 1920×1200 would have been preferable. Yeah, I'm showing my age here, but I can't even bear to use anything higher resolution than 1440P on a 32" these days. The way people have 27" UHD screens or smaller, and seem to be happy, even young people with good eyesight, blows my mind. Not to mention the improved gaming performance at standard resolutions that are a fair number lower in the pixel count than UHD/4K. Mind you, I do think the eye (I guess obviously) can take in far more information than any screen can currently display. I for one am extremely sensitive to Hz/FPS – I blame the two decades of FPS gaming. The difference between 120Hz and 240Hz is still obvious to my ailing eyes. But yeah, in a nutshell, for me, for the past many years, 1440P has been my personal "sweet spot" for gaming rigs. And even I find 1080P far too pixellated on any decently sized display. For an office or browsing laptop, it's a different situation. I can definitely see the benefit of a small enough dot pitch in those cases. However, as you say, Windows isn't the best at automating scaling, especially with all the "legacy" applications it has, and how Windows doesn't seem to be able to consistently handle them. And laptop screens are never very large. On a 15" screen, I would have definitely done the same thing as you, and quartered the 4K resolution – even back when I had 20/15 vision (that's better than 20/20, mind you! 💪). Reply
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