Its all exciting until you see the accountant's 10 key hanging off the side. :(
Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
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Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
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You can always add a usb numpad, but you can never remove one that is already there.
True. Why do they sell laptops with screen built in?
Excellent idea! Then you can reposition it so that the useless numpad doesn't force the main keyboard to be off-center. ;-)
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I have an XPS 15 from around the same time and the 1080p display feels a little poor. What I notice most is the long pixel response time. I'd take a 1080p OLED over a 4K LCD anyday. I'd also take a 4K OLED over either any day as well. High refresh rate and/or backlight strobing would be nice to have as well. Battery life isn't as much of a concern to me. I know not all users have the same priority as me. It's nice th…
> 1080p OLED Yep. What's getting lost in this whole discussion over resolution and whether >1080p is necessary is the issue of panel quality. Most laptops have always had absolute shit that is useless for photo editing or color-accurate work. Even at the high end they rarely advertise things like gamut coverage.
Does anyone sell an OLED laptop display? I thought it was just in phones and giant TVs still. The standard today is pretty much that good laptops are IPS and bad laptops are TN
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> 60% mechanical keyboard What's that?
The article on the Deskthority wiki probably explains it best: https://deskthority.net/wiki/60%25 It's essentially a keyboard lacking function keys, a numerical pad, and a navigation cluster. Usually has between 61 and 68 keys, and contains an extra "function" key that acts beyond the typical Fn key to help you control layers. Every 60% doesn't have layers, but most do, and those layers are generally programmable. Th…
The other strange thing about a design like the Minila is that there's enough "bezel" at the top of the case for them to have put half-size function keys, which would have made it much more useful without having to increase the overall size.
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#375Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 1080p OLED Yep. What's getting lost in this whole discussion over resolution and whether >1080p is necessary is the issue of panel quality. Most laptops have always had absolute shit that is useless for photo editing or color-accurate work. Even at the high end they rarely advertise things like gamut coverage.
Does anyone sell an OLED laptop display? I thought it was just in phones and giant TVs still. The standard today is pretty much that good laptops are IPS and bad laptops are TN
I've seen options with OLED from HP, Lenovo, Dell, Asus and Razer (always on a few select models though).
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
#376I don't understand why many of these workstation-class laptops have num. pads. It is so annoying to type with your hands off-center from the screen.
Ever try using Blender without one? You absolutely need the numpad for 3D programs and game engines, otherwise it's outright painful.
I did think that for the first few weeks of using Blender, but I find I don't use it any more. I think perhaps once I was using Blenders verb / constrain / snap model I stopped using the ortho views. So for example (G)rab / X / (10)units. (S)cale, Y, 1.5. (E)xtrude, Y, Snap.
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
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Would buy in a heartbeat if it had a 4k display. Hard to go back to 1080p after six years of Retina and 4K displays.
Do you want just 20 minutes of battery charge or what?
4K laptops can have reasonable battery life. See almost every>= 4K Ice Lake and Tiger Lake laptop for example.
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> could just be my sight It is 1080p to 4k is such a large difference
Really? On a 13" display? I bet in a blind AB test at a normal viewing distance you wouldn't even be able to accurately tell me which is which.
I went from a 27" 4k display to a 27" 2k display on my desk and I notice the difference every day. I only switched for higher refresh rate.
The biggest thing keeping me on my Macbook is it's hard to find a 13 inch, hi dpi, close as possible to mac keyboard laptop. The Razer 13 inch was sooo close but they made tilde and backslash half keys for some reason....
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Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
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> I've been using System76's PopOS with my Asus Zephyrus G14 (4800hs) as a daily driver and I really like it. (freelance/web) Thank you for the pointer. I have the exact same laptop and tried Ubuntu on it - couldn't even change the screen brightness.
Ubuntu 20.04 lts?
Yes.
Re: Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
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I think it's to avoid fractional scaling.
And the crazy thing about that is that Windows handles fractional scaling perfectly, and I hear that Linux environments mostly do (but I have no experience), while macOS uses an absolutely stupidly bad technique that literally makes the higher resolution worse than having a lower resolution screen in most cases: rendering at the next integer, and scaling down. That way, it’s impossible to draw pixel-perfectly, and fi…
macOS uses an absolutely stupidly bad technique that literally makes the higher resolution worse than having a lower resolution screen in most cases
That's not my experience at all. For a while I was using a 27" 4k display at an effective resolution of 2560x1440. Obviously it wasn't as nice as 5k at 2x scaling would have been, but it was much sharper than a native 1440p display.