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Re: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

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Post by 8K832d7tNmiQ »

solarkraft wrote: post #41
Dig1t wrote: post #32

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I don't really think cloud vendors are holding their breath to switch to ARM, they are all heavily invested in X86. All their code has been built on it for forever, and there's a big advantage to having your dev machines running the same architecture as your cloud production machines. I think desktop ARM adoption would have to happen before the server market moves to the same.

> their code has been built on it for forever, and there's a big advantage to having your dev machines running the same architecture as your cloud production machines Is that really so? Are remote development and emulation not sufficiently advanced yet? Super hot paths might be x86 optimized, but how much does that really matter? I'd think at the scales of the big providers nothing matters more than performance/power…

There’s still no real justification for vendors to even offer ARM instances, and instead become more clear to keep x86 instead with the rising of remote development and emulation.

Re: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

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Post by cillian64 »

formerly_proven wrote: post #26
chrismorgan wrote: post #21

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It’s hard to change the brightness of desktop monitors. Bafflingly, Windows and macOS don’t support adjusting their brightness the way they do for laptops, despite the existence of DDC/CI to do just that, so you’re left using third-party software if you know about it, or interacting with the awful OSD/buttons on the screen, which you’ll hardly want to do all the time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24316728 is…

I dunno. The OSD on Dells is pretty simple. You press the topmost button twice, up/down to adjust, lowest button to save and exit. Since my office has windows, I've been doing this two to four times a day on most days for years. Doesn't bother me too much (it's pretty quick though because I largely only use the 0-40 range, which is about 20-120 nits). On my LG it's even quicker, push the joystick back, then forward/b…

I have a Dell U2415 which is great for this. You can create custom colour/brightness/contrast profiles and assign them to hotkeys. I have one nice bright one for dark terminals or when the sun's out, and a darker lower contrast one for when I have a bright white website or document to read and the office is a bit dimmer. It's two quick button presses to change between these presets.

I think I'd quite like something which adapted brightness and contrast to ambient light as well as the brightness and contrast of what's on screen. With mobile devices this can be a pain as you move around and in and out of shadows, but I feel it could work a lot better on a desktop display. The display could even have the light sensor on its back so it can work out what its backdrop looks like.

Re: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

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mroche wrote: post #40
indymike wrote: post #14

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After spending about six years with a Macbook with a retina display, going to even 1080p feels like a step back.

It's a tad ironic (to me) because unless you max out the scaling of the display, none of the MacBook displays have an effective resolution >= 1920x1080. Apple has been defaulting to a fractional scaling the past few years rather than true Retina which is 200% scaling, but even then it falls short[0]. However, 200% scaling is crisp and I can appreciate it. I just don't like losing all that real estate. And the fractio…

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Post by nobleach »

indymike wrote: post #14
rowanG077 wrote: post #3

All of the ryzen laptops that exist have abysmal screens. I would have bought one if it weren't for this fact.

After spending about six years with a Macbook with a retina display, going to even 1080p feels like a step back.

I have both a 15" MacBook Pro (2018 model) and a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 open in front of me right now. I have 20/20 vision and it really is not striking me as that much better. I spend quite a bit of my day in a terminal and the remainder looking at the web, so font rendering definitely matters. Even with Linux's abysmal font-rendering, the mac really doesn't feel like it has the edge.

Re: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

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Post by solarkraft »

mroche wrote: post #40
indymike wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After spending about six years with a Macbook with a retina display, going to even 1080p feels like a step back.

It's a tad ironic (to me) because unless you max out the scaling of the display, none of the MacBook displays have an effective resolution >= 1920x1080. Apple has been defaulting to a fractional scaling the past few years rather than true Retina which is 200% scaling, but even then it falls short[0]. However, 200% scaling is crisp and I can appreciate it. I just don't like losing all that real estate. And the fractio…

I use a '15 MBP with Windows for work and usually use it at 125-150%.

Almost nothing looks blurry. I can't imagine it being worse on macOS.

At home I use a 4k 15" XPS with Linux on 1,7x scaling and nothing looks bad either.

I assume app support is there for the former case and it's not for the latter, so I can pretty well recommend 4k screens at that size.

Re: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

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Post by scohesc »

chrismorgan wrote: post #10
rowanG077 wrote: post #3

All of the ryzen laptops that exist have abysmal screens. I would have bought one if it weren't for this fact.

My last couple of laptops have had IPS panels. I intend never to buy a TN panel again. My last laptop was a 15″ 1920×1080, and my current is a 13″ 3000×2000 (and I love the aspect ratio). I intend never to buy a laptop with a 1920×1080 screen again. At some point I’m afraid I may end up with a ≥120fps screen and rarefy my tastes still further. (I hear good things about them, but have never seen an LCD with such a fra…

Remember when 99% of laptops priced around $800 or lower were automatically doomed with a 1024x768 screen - and to get a higher resolution you'd be paying at least 300-400 more?

Yeeks.

Re: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

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Post by chrismorgan »

formerly_proven wrote: post #19
q3k wrote: post #4

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Very happy with my T14 (AMD) IPS 1920x1080 display. Some might dislike that it's not High DPI, but personally that's not a feature I want.

1080p on 14" is high DPI. It's just not 250+ DPI high.

Colloquially, “high DPI” has a fairly specific meaning: it means “designed to be used with a scaling factor of at least 2 (and definitely uncomfortable to use below a scaling factor of 1.5)”. 1920×1080 on 14″ does not meet this definition.

And when it’s capitalised, High DPI, as it was in the parent comment, it’s definitely referring to this definition.

Back in the days when 1366×768 and 1280×800 were common sorts of resolutions and 1920×1080 was the highest available (that is, before Apple’s Retina displays), perhaps you could have said 1920×1080 was “high DPI”, but people didn’t use the term “high DPI” back then. And certainly not “High DPI”.

Re: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

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Post by iakov »

ampdepolymerase wrote: post #44

It is a pity that a similarly specced ThinkPad would be at least a thousand dollars more expensive.

A similarly specced ThinkPad or Latitude is built to last, has user-replaceable components and will not fall apart in 2 years after a warranty expires.

From my experience you get what you pay for with those professional machines.

Re: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

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Post by jve »

formerly_proven wrote: post #18
notacoward wrote: post #12

I have one. The US version "only" has a 4800U, but it was still an absolute steal at US$800. It's a nice size, feels solid, and lasts all day easily . I've used it all day more than once and not seen the battery go below 50% yet. Then again, I haven't really pushed it that hard. I'm sure if I played some games it would "only" last five or six hours. And no, I haven't had any issues with the screen. In fact I turn it…

> If you're staring at a 500nit screen at full brightness all day, you're probably not doing your eyes any good. I'm kinda surprised how many people set their screens to 100 % brightness (300-400 nits for most screens) on their desktop. I find that blinding and very uncomfortable. That also seems to be a reason why people complain so much about IPS bleed and glow; using the screen near full brightness in a dark room…

> I'm kinda surprised how many people set their screens to 100 % brightness

Not everyone knows that this impacts your eyes. Someone called me and asked if I know anything about glasses that would restrict blue light and make his eyes feel better. After telling a thing about f.lux, we ended ended up finding out that brightness was at 100%. He lowered to 50% and said: thank you, much better.

Re: Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 7 is a showcase for AMD’s exceptional new processor

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Post by jackbravo »

formerly_proven wrote: post #18
notacoward wrote: post #12

I have one. The US version "only" has a 4800U, but it was still an absolute steal at US$800. It's a nice size, feels solid, and lasts all day easily . I've used it all day more than once and not seen the battery go below 50% yet. Then again, I haven't really pushed it that hard. I'm sure if I played some games it would "only" last five or six hours. And no, I haven't had any issues with the screen. In fact I turn it…

> If you're staring at a 500nit screen at full brightness all day, you're probably not doing your eyes any good. I'm kinda surprised how many people set their screens to 100 % brightness (300-400 nits for most screens) on their desktop. I find that blinding and very uncomfortable. That also seems to be a reason why people complain so much about IPS bleed and glow; using the screen near full brightness in a dark room…

I always used to set my monitor to 100% brightness, when I used glasses. I had an eye operation 2 years ago and from the first day I could tell that it was too bright. Normal prescription glasses have light filters that makes you not notice this type of things.
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