Comment by reactordev

Comment by reactordev 11 hours ago

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He doesn’t have nano texture, I can guarantee that. His screen probably has fingerprints and glare and all sorts of issues like visible pixels.

I’ve owned a hell of a lot of laptops and MacBooks are the best, not because of Mac, but because of the build quality. The touchpad is perfect, the aluminum body is rugged, the screen is amazing, and the audio truly is sorcery thanks to Apple acquiring Beat’s audionet.

The worst laptop for build quality were those HP Chromebooks.

ThinkPad’s are mid tier but still made of plastic.

Yoga foldable or a MS Surface is better.

MSI or Razor if you don’t feel like ever touching your laptop (:fire:)

zozbot234 8 hours ago

"Visible pixels" are a total non-issue already on a 1080p screen, and a near-non issue on 768p. There's just no ambiguity about this, it's a matter of simple physics. Maybe you'll need to go up to a 1200p screen or thereabouts to cope with crappy rendering on the software side (allowing for a 0.7x factor or so in image spatial bandwidth/resolution due to lack of proper anti-aliasing), but anything above that is just plain overkill. Unless you like to look at tiny portions of your screen with a frickin' magnifying glass, of course.

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  • reactordev 6 hours ago

    I don’t wear glasses, I can see pixels on a 1080p screen just fine whereas on a Retina display or anything with 4k+ I can’t at a normal distance.

    Glad you know how my eyes work. You probably will say next that I can’t see the refresh.

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    • zozbot234 5 hours ago

      You can see pixels up close on a 1080p screen if you have good eyesight, but that's not the way you're supposed to work with a screen as a matter of ergonomics. Even on a laptop, you're always looking at the screen as a whole, not just seeing a tiny portion of it in your field of view.

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      • reactordev 4 hours ago

        I can see pixels at rest when sitting at my desk and a 1080p monitor 27” or more is on it.

        Thanks for letting me know how my eyes work.

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  • foldr 7 hours ago

    You can definitely see the resolution difference between a 1080p 13" display and a 13" 'retina' display. You may not care about it, but I think it's uncontroversial that it's a visible difference.

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  • _bent 7 hours ago

    you might want to check in with an ophthalmologist

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ezst 9 hours ago

> He doesn’t have nano texture© […] His screen probably has fingerprints and glare and all sorts of issues like visible pixels.

Thanks Tim, but I prefer my day without bullshit propaganda.

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pxc 8 hours ago

Laptops only get fingerprints on the screen, unless they're touchscreens, when they try to be stupidly thin like MacBooks do, so that the screen routinely touches the keys. It's stupid design.

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