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ASUS has demonstrated the first 300 Hz laptops, after ASUS and others debuted 240 Hz laptops earlier in the year:
Designed specifically for hardcore gamers and esports professionals on the go, the ASUS ROG Zephyrus S GX701 will be the world's first notebook with a display supporting up to 300 Hz refresh rate and a 3 ms GtG response time. This machine will be available already in October, 2019. In addition, similar LCDs with a 300 Hz refresh rate and a 3 ms GtG response time will be featured on a prototype ROG Zephyrus S GX502 as well as on the 15-inch and 17-inch models of the ROG Strix Scar III.
ASUS does not disclose the maker of its 300 Hz/3 ms display panels, though it is highly likely that the company uses panels with a 240 Hz native refresh rate in overdrive mode. What is noteworthy is that production 240 Hz ROG Zephyrus S GX701 and ROG Zephyrus S GX502 will feature factory-calibrated displays with Pantone Validation, so in addition to gamers, these machines will also be appreciated by professionals who use color-critical applications.
See also: Blur Busters Law: The Amazing Journey To Future 1000Hz Displays
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 04 2019, @11:30PM (4 children)
If millennials worried less about esports and more about history, they'd know they're being ripped off.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 05 2019, @04:03AM (3 children)
You had an amazingly shitty laptop then. I assume you're talking about the CPU speed rather than the display refresh speed, since that's a million times faster than your display could have refreshed in 2k1.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @05:17AM (2 children)
Not OP, but 60 hz was standard in 2001. I has a 60 hz CRT in the 90s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @07:04AM
Read the title again and then check this link [wikipedia.org] if you are still confused.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Thursday September 05 2019, @09:06AM
I had a 60Hz, greater-than-HD screen in the 90's.
I used to have to upscale and deinterlace broadcast TV to fit even in a window on my desktop. I was doing that in my teenage years, with a Hauppauge WinTV card and a video overlay (can't remember if it had an internal cable or a VGA passthrough).
The fact that not much has changed in the intervening 20+ years tells me that actually what I have been using all that time is fine and 60Hz, 1080p is absolutely fine and actually a bit too low res when you're doing desktop work, but also everything is a bit small when you're doing it on a tiny little screen like a laptop would have.
This is a sales gimmick. Gimme a laptop even comparable in features to my 8-year-old gaming laptop and I'll have a look, and it would be easy to beat that technically, it's the things like two internal SATA ports, always-on USB charging port (even when laptop is off, great for travelling as your laptop becomes a big battery pack), VGA, HDMI, Bluray, full-size keyboard with numpad, huge screen, etc. that modern laptops either don't have or never have in combination with everything else.
But 300Hz nonsense? Not interested.