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I prefer them. Either my opinion is wrong, or your blanket statement is wrong.
why do you prefer 1080?
Longer battery life and no app scaling issues (on the apps I use)
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#12How does it compare to Lenovo Thinkpad L15? As I understand there is no problem with running latest Linux on it, and currently I'm thinking about buying it (mostly Rails development + docker). Do you recommend any other machine?
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I prefer them. Either my opinion is wrong, or your blanket statement is wrong.
why do you prefer 1080?
I prefer it since 1080p takes less resources to drive, therefore gets better battery life. On a 14" display, I think 1080p looks more than fine. If I want a hidpi display, I'll just dock to an external display.
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#14I feel like battery life could be a challenge too, at 49 Wh. The M1 Macbooks have a 58 Wh battery, but they also benefit from being not-x86 and having better power management at the OS level. Dell XPS laptops with discrete graphics ship 97 Wh.
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#15I like my System76 desktop but I've had plenty of issues with their laptops, and I really dislike a numpad on a laptop.
I love my numpad.
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I prefer them. Either my opinion is wrong, or your blanket statement is wrong.
Sometimes I wish there was the possibility to see the exact number of upvotes or downvotes a response got here in HN in order to settle the numbers of such opinions (pro and contra).
There are hn polls.
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#18You're welcome guys. I'd been considering whether to wait for one of these or buy something else.
After just putting in an order for a Darter Pro, of course this immediately becomes available!
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#19Shipping 1080p panels in a high end laptop was a non-starter in 2016.
I would have love something like 2160 × 1440 (3:2 aspect ratio), but then they'd likely not have included a numpad.
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#20Shipping 1080p panels in a high end laptop was a non-starter in 2016.
I completely agree. I will never go back to 1080p and a 16/9 ratio.
3/2 is the best ratio ever when writing code (after 4/3, but that’s definitely dead).