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System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

#31

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

I assure you it's enough to display text correctly in 1080p on 15" which is not considered hidpi. You may like hidpi, and that's fine. But let's keep shifting personal standards and what's practically usable straight.

It may be difficult to consider such a laptop after using one with a better screen though. I think that’s his point.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

#32
post #17

I'm not a fan of having my laptop maker's logo plastered on the exterior of my laptop but it is unavoidable these days. The System76 logo on this laptop is an especially egregious example of this. It alone would prevent me from considering purchasing one. I'll be looking elsewhere next year when I am due to upgrade which is unfortunate because I am a fan of Pop!_OS and would otherwise have considered System76. Edit:…

Put a black sticker over it and call it a day?

I question the judgement of the designers when I see such a large logo. Makes me hesitant about the overall quality. It looks cheap.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

#33

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

I assure you it's enough to display text correctly in 1080p on 15" which is not considered hidpi. You may like hidpi, and that's fine. But let's keep shifting personal standards and what's practically usable straight.

It might be enough to show the text, but there is still no enough space on the screen. On 1440p disply for example there is so much more to run apps side by side.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

#34

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

I think this is a personal preference rather than a 'it just can not do it' situation. Been programming for decades on 1080p and before 1080 on 1024. My eyesight is quite bad (-5.85) and i can see perfectly fine on 1080p. Sure 2k or 4k might be better. But thats true for 8k as well.

HDD -> SSD is an enormous difference. SSD -> NVMe, better but not so dramatic.

1080p -> 4K is an enormous difference. 4K -> 8K, better but not so dramatic.

The rate of improvement is not linear.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

#35

Non-hiDPI display in 2022 is a non-starter. There’s simply not enough pixels to display text correctly with full hd.

as someone who regularly uses a 1080p windows laptop and an 1800p MacBook pro, it's certainly not the requirement for me it appears to be for you. It's an improvement, but so is the matte finish on my windows display

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

#36
post #30

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I vaguely think my cheap college laptop display around 2006 was 1080 lines tall. How can it possibly be that some manufacturers haven't moved on since then?

Cheap 2006 laptop? Would have been 768p at best, maybe even 600p. Even Apple would happily sell you an 800p macbook ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_(2006%E2%80%932012) ) until 2012 and laptop GPUs of the era would struggle with a 1080p desktop.

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Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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post #17

I'm not a fan of having my laptop maker's logo plastered on the exterior of my laptop but it is unavoidable these days. The System76 logo on this laptop is an especially egregious example of this. It alone would prevent me from considering purchasing one. I'll be looking elsewhere next year when I am due to upgrade which is unfortunate because I am a fan of Pop!_OS and would otherwise have considered System76. Edit:…

There are a bunch of sellers of laptop skins who will solve your problem for about 30 bucks. At least one (skinit) will let you give them an image to put on the back of your laptop.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

#38
post #17

I'm not a fan of having my laptop maker's logo plastered on the exterior of my laptop but it is unavoidable these days. The System76 logo on this laptop is an especially egregious example of this. It alone would prevent me from considering purchasing one. I'll be looking elsewhere next year when I am due to upgrade which is unfortunate because I am a fan of Pop!_OS and would otherwise have considered System76. Edit:…

Xiaomi laptops don't have any logo on the exterior, just clear slate. Looks very slick

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assure you it's enough to display text correctly in 1080p on 15" which is not considered hidpi. You may like hidpi, and that's fine. But let's keep shifting personal standards and what's practically usable straight.

It may be difficult to consider such a laptop after using one with a better screen though. I think that’s his point.

Meh, I switch between a Macbook Air M1 and a Linux desktop with 24" 1920x1200 screens and it's fine after tweaking the font hinting a bit.

Re: System76 Lemur Pro Linux laptop with 14 hours of battery life

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post #32

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Put a black sticker over it and call it a day?

I question the judgement of the designers when I see such a large logo. Makes me hesitant about the overall quality. It looks cheap.

I consider it is a matter of taste. The large logo could also be a requirement from the marketing department.

In this view, it should therefore not be a hint about the overall quality.

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