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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: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Thursday September 05 2019, @07:32AM (2 children)
120 Hz feels super smooth for desktop use. Moving the mouse and getting instant response is a joy. Admittedly, my baseline is laggy 30 Hz (limit of 4k resolution with old HDMI), but at 60 Hz, it just feels normal and 120 Hz is awesome. Maybe it's a placebo effect, but still something I'd pay for.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ledow on Thursday September 05 2019, @09:14AM (1 child)
That irks the scientist in me.
Maybe you should actually test that placebo.
Get a friend to set it randomly, over a dozen or more trials, to 30, 60 or 120Hz. He's not to tell you what he set it to, and you're not to look.
Then you can use the desktop for a period of time.
At the end, if you can't tell the difference significantly more than random chance (i.e. you'll guess right four times out of every dozen anyway), without cheating, then you are literally throwing money away for placebo.
"Maybe it's a placebo effect, but still something I'd pay for." is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You may as well just edit your driver INF files and make them all the same as the existing settings but have 3000Hz, 6000Hz settings for the names.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Thursday September 05 2019, @01:52PM
I think the chance it's a placebo effect is less than 5 %. Therefore, I wouldn't mind paying for the feature. The expectation value of money wasted is only 5 % of the extra cost.