Quoting: Appelsin16:9 = Big narp on that one. I'll keep my old 16:10 MacbookTux, tyvm.
Intel = Meh, no thanks.

Seriously. Can we PLEASE stop with 16:9? It was bad in 2010, it was bad in 2015 and it's still bad in 2021. I get that they are cheaper than proper aspect panels, but come one.

16:9 is horrible on anything smaller than a 27". And even then it's not good. /rant >_<

Yeah, I don't get it. I have a few 16:10 panels and my current set up is a 32:10. It is a much nicer ratio. The painful thing is so many games only support 16:9...

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: iiariBummer, 16:9 screen... I can't go back to it after having had many years of 3:2 laptop screens. I think the only vertically larger native option are the Lenovo Thinkpads and the Dells....

That gives me a bizarro-world idea. So, for a lot of things you want to read/look at on a computer screen, you actually would want it to be taller than it is wide. Part of the reason they go with wider-than-tall is tradition dating back from TVs, and on laptops part is that they have to match the bottom half, with keyboard layouts having natural reasons to be wider than they are tall, at least if you're doing any fast touch-typing.
But how about a laptop design with a screen whose primary orientation was vertical? I can think of a few ways to manage it:
1. Strange keyboard layout. The screen simply hinges on a short side, and you have a keyboard that's laid out much more vertically. Not going to be winning any typing competitions, but if you're OK with that you've got this tall screen.
2. Screen opens on the short side, but has a narrow attachment to the base which you can slide around the edge to the middle of the long side, where it locks again and has contacts to power and so forth. You have a normally oriented keyboard with an odd looking vertical screen rising from it; to close it properly you slide it around again (because if you just folded it down from where it is the screen rectangle would be at right angles to the keyboard rectangle). Finicky, probably not durable.
3. Screen is detachable, basically a tablet, which you can have vertical or horizontal. But there's attachment points/clamps so that it will stand up, and be charged when attached to the keyboard.
4. Screen is attached on the long side, but it's actually attached to a hinged arm, not directly to the bottom half. So you open the laptop and it's a normal screen, but you can slide it up the arm and then pivot it vertical. The result is slightly "lumpy" when it's closed because you have this arm running down the back of the screen, but you could make the thing pretty flat.

Here is the thing that bugs me...
So the movie industry and others all 'plot' to do away with 4:3 displays, or 5:4. Which we that are picky KNOW are better for actual work, as 16:9 is really only good for movie consumption. And even then, more and more movies do things like use 2.35:1, or you know Snyder doing 4:3 again... coders usually enjoy turning their monitors so they are 9:16.
Yet, someone, somewhere decided we should ditch optical drives on our computers, and forcing us to stream instead (via whatever methods, legal or not) so buying physical media is waning and they can get us on subscriptions... sorry, rambled a bit..

Anyhow, web sites, and documents in general usually have a specific margin and characters per line count which basically wastes space on wide screen displays. Basically, if you eliminate movie consumption (and video games in a sense, they also can be better with more horizontal space) then rea)y computer monitors should be taller, not wider.

Anyhkw, end of rant. These laptops look nice.

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Quoting: Dorrit

Quoting: iiariBummer, 16:9 screen...

Quite :angry:
16:9 has no place in smaller screens. 3:2 or 16:10 all the way.
Even in larger monitors 16:10 is much superior to 16:9.

I quite like my 32:10. Just wish more games supported it.

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Quoting: denyasisI'm also a sucker for antquity, for me it's one of the more approachable historical eras because we learned about it in school growing up. Although, I'd be really interested in a non western setting, maybe ancient India or China, although i'd really have to invest in learning the game and the cultural terms and meanings. I struggled hard with that with CK2.

I really enjoy history, but it seems to me the reason we usually get so much about Rome and that period of time is because we know the most about it. Ancient India and China? Well for China, there was a long while where they became very isolationist and tried to stamp out their own history. India I feel has been conquered or fought over many times throughout history, and some of their ancient cultures have really only been dug up in the past 50-70 years or so. India's religious texts are rather interesting with odd flying machines and such in them.
Ha on that note, would be funny if someone made an RTS based on Ancient Aliens.

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Quoting: TriasA shame. After 2.0 patch I finally played a long campaign, till end year, and had lots of fun. Was really looking forward for this game...

Anything preventing you from playing it? Seems to me all they're saying is that it's on the back burner for this year as it wasn't as successful of a sale as their other games. Their other games being ones they can milk their audience for all the monies (I can't believe how much I ended up spending on CKII and never finding the time to play it...)

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Quoting: GeoGalvanic

Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: The_Aquabatthere's only one user with a 7680x4320 monitor, who's the fortunate? I'm a bit jealous. :P

My favorite statistic is that there are 3 people here with 12 monitors. Not one. Three.

I just got my third and fourth monitors recently.

I'm genuinely surprised by the number of people that continue to only have one monitor. Jump from 2 to 4 felt really nice, but the going from 1 to 2 is absolutely game changing.

Ha, my monitor history (going all the way back to CRTs) was 1... until the Parhelia was released, then 3... then 1 for many years, then 2. Then I had 3 again at one point (one of which is 3d) but one was noticeably pinker than the others, so ditched them for an ultrawide screen, which nothing supported right.

Then I switched to 2 1080p ones... then to 2x 1440p, then 2x4k... and now a single stupid ultra wide monitor at 3840x1200. My favorite monitors are my Valve Index though! If only I could use that as my desktop.

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Sadly, no one is really talking about Hellpoint, which I think is quite a fun game! I just had other games I wanted to beat before I sat down and played it. But it is pretty fun / interesting.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: JuliusIt actually runs fine in medium settings on a mobile Geforce 970m @ 1920x1080. No idea why you would think you need a 3080? Maybe at 4K?

They're probably referring to Ray Tracing.

Exactly this, I'm sure my 2080 would play it just fine if I turned off Ray Tracing, but seeing how it's one of the few games that'll actually use it in Linux and in general, I figured what the hell? :)

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Quoting: gojulI don't know for other people but even with a GeForce 2070 SUPER on Debian Bullseye (KDE) I faced dozens of crashes on Metro Exodus. Looks like the port is a bit sloppy given the testimonies on Steam. However the game is damn beautiful... when it works.

I only played it for a few minutes, sure seems with all the things turned on, it's going to require more than my 2080... if only 3080s were actually sold at a sane price...

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Quoting: tuxisagamer

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: RoosterMy favorite statistic is that there are 3 people here with 12 monitors. Not one. Three.

Ha ha, that's hilarious. Do they use something like the Matrox cards to drive them all at once? I mean if I counted all of my monitors in total... I have a lot! Granted, some of them are CRTs...

Quoting: tuxisagamerPity there's no option to put in the refresh rate manually. My new Gigabyte M27Q is 170hz but 165 is close enough.

My issue with the higher refresh rate monitors is that most of the games that'll actually take advantage of such a thing, still struggle to get to 40fps on high end hardware... (mind you, that's with all the extras turned on!)

I'm getting 50-80 FPS with Ultra settings at 1440p for most of my titles (whether native, wine, or proton) but Doom runs at 130. The only things that hit 170 at that resolution don't really need it, but I'm well positioned for when I can finally get a 30 Series Nvidia card to replace my 2060.

Ha, was trying 7 days to die, and it was choppy on my 2080 at 3840x1200@144. That game is still buggy as hell.

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