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Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
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#192After using a rMBP for 6 years, I realized that using a lower resolution and lower quality display makes absolutely no sense at all if both graphical power and budget is available (first 13' rMBP had some serious issue driving the display). Better quality image is better quality image. I think Apple's biggest selling point over any vendor right now, despite numerous issues with its hardware and software in the recent…
For the trackpad I agree, but definitely not for the keyboard. And apple was late(!) to hires screens and to hidpi and now has lower res and density than the competition (e.g. 16:10 better 4k on dell xps or 3:2 screens with MS and others). Also, apple had TN screens forever when the similarly priced competition had higher res IPS screens.
Who else had hi-res screens in 2012?
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#1934k monitors are still so much more expensive and have noticeable costs on laptop performance at least. When I got a macbook air with USB-C, I was initially planning on getting two 4k monitors. However, that would mean spending ~$500 to get a 27" monitor, $120 for a thunderbolt adapter than can drive both displays at their proper refresh rate, and >$200 if I wanted an adapter that can also charge the laptop.
All told, that's the total price of the laptop just in periphery. I ended up going with a $30 usb-c adapter and some ~$100 dell 1080p screens, and I'm happy as a clam.
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#194i got two of these for ~550. i really dont know what more you could want if you arent editing videos or photos or whatever: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Acer-KG1-28-Gaming-Monitor-4K-3840x...
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#195I still use a CRT, because features I want are still ludicrous expensive in newer tech (although they are getting cheaper over time). 1. Arbitrary resolutions, great to run old software and games, even better to run new games at lower resolution to increase performance. 2. Arbitrary refresh rates. 3. Zero (literally) response time. 4. Awesome color range (many modern screens still are 12bit, meanwhile silicon graphic…
Nice, I think I still have a Sony Trinitron somewhere.
I wonder if there are any market for a modern take of CRT.
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#196Personally, my takeaways from this article are to disable font smoothing. I disabled it on my MBP and I like how the default fonts are rendered now. They appear less bright and more crisper. I haven't changed these settings on my MBP since I got it, so it's likely enabled by default. The rationale behind it makes sense in low resolution cases, but to have it enabled by default on rMBP doesn't make sense to me.
However the recommendation to reduce the resolution scaling option is a no for me. The text is wayyyy too big for me and I lose out on the screen real estate.
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#197My 5 years old iMac 5K 27" monitor is just fine, thank you. But lately I'm beginning to notice the effect of the brightness of modern displays in my eyes...
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#198I have been using my current home PLP setup for 10 years. Dell U3011 (2560x1600) in middle and Dell 2007FP (1200x1600) on the sides. Off and on I have looked for high dpi replacements, but never found anything suitable.
At the beginning of the year, my U3011 started blanking out on me. As it became more frequent, I started shopping again. But wow, the monitor situation right now is sad. There are no high dpi monitors with enough vertical space. And since they're all at least as short as 16:9, they're unusable in portrait as well.
I ended up repairing the U3011. It's going to have to last me a while. There's just no upgrade path.
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#199I found this article utterly baffling. The author clearly knows their stuff, having created Fira Code, but my experiences couldn't be more different. I spend most of my days in a text browser, text editor and text terminal, looking at barely moving letters. So I optimize my setup to showing really, really good letters. I certainly appreciate how nice text looks on a high DPI display. But for coding purposes!? I don't…
Blurry, pixellated text is not a coder's paradise.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love my 3 monitor setup. In 20 years of coding, I finally reached peak productivity in my workspace. No switching between windows, ease of throwing a window aside for monitoring, laying out information and tools side to side. It’s incredible once you readjust your habits and learn to use that new space. I compare it to having a large, wide desk when you’re working on something. Who wouldn’t want that? I was one of…
> I compare it to having a large, wide desk when you’re working on something. Who wouldn’t want that? I have used between 1-3 monitors over the last decade, and there sure are advantages to having 3 for certain tasks. However, I noticed that having multiple monitors resulted in me having a dedicated screen for email (usually the smallest, my laptop screen). This decreased my productivity. Perhaps not everyone has thi…
Coronavirus has robbed me of one of my favorite productivity hacks, which is coding on old Thinkpad with 4:3 ratio display, at a coffeeshop or library with Internet turned off. No distractions, no multitasking, just pure focus on a problem.
I miss it.