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15-inch, 4K OLED laptops are coming thanks to new displays from Samsung:
Larger OLED laptop screens are coming sooner than we anticipated. Samsung Displays announced that it has made a 15.6-inch 4K laptop display and will begin producing the panels next month. The company plans on providing them to other manufacturers to put into their premium notebooks.
[...] Samsung's 15.6-inch display has a brightness range of 0.0005 to 600 nits, and its spectrum of 34 million colors is double that of similar, 15-inch LCD panels. Samsung claims that its panel can produce blacks that are 200 times darker than those of LCD panels, and whites will be more than twice as bright. These attributes contribute to the HDR capabilities of the panel, and the company claims that the panel passes VESA's new DisplayHDR TrueBlack standard.
The cost? Don't ask.
Also at Engadget.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @10:34PM (2 children)
On one hand, I don't disagree in the general case -- pentile and friends are optimized for continuous-tone images like photos or video, while uniform triplet arrangements are better for discrete-tone lines and text. And I'd much rather have a computer display optimized for text over video.
On the other hand, it's a 4k, 15" display -- with that sort of pixel density, you're getting to where the differences between subpixel layouts don't matter much, because we're getting down near the limits of human visual acuity at normal working distances for a laptop.
(Obligatory reminder that Jobs lied about "retina" displays, deliberately conflating line-pairs/mm with pixels/mm, and thus introducing a factor of two error. So 15" "retina" displays in the 2500-3000px wide range leave a bit to be desired, but 3840px is getting close.)
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday January 24 2019, @11:45PM (1 child)
Good point.
(Score: 0) by fakefuck39 on Friday January 25 2019, @11:05PM
Terrible point. Same point as those made by the "no one needs 4k movies, 1080p is fine" people. Had a 4k laptop for over 2 years now. have 4k tvs at 32 and 65".
1080p looks fine. Watch a 4k video and flip it to 1080p in the middle. Wow that looks like shit all of a sudden.
use a 4k laptop w/o font smoothing. Looks great. Now turn it on, use it for a while. Now turn it off. wow all the text looks like shit all of a sudden.
carrot cake. yummy. but not sitting next to chocolate cake.
fish is great and I love to eat it. put that fish next to a rare thick steak - wow that looks like shit all of a sudden.
not that's a good point. the OP's point is this: he hast strong opinions about shit he knows nothing about. the less the less actual knowledge, the stronger the opinion. This is how you get Christians, antivaxxers, and him - most likely a very ugly overweight person with super low self esteem. who's also a little dumb.