Everything was perfect after a quick change to a 1920 x 1080 resolution.
That really grates. This person is supposed to be a technology journalist? And they’ve never heard of changing the font size?
Came here to say this. The display has a resolution of 2880 x 1800 pixels. And this “journalist” tells me, that it looks good with a configured resolution of 1920 x 1080. Tells a lot about the quality of this review.
As far as the display, it’s beautiful.
Coming from someone who sees no problem in downscaling by 2.5 the resolution instead of changing dpi, this means absolutely nothing.
Actually, the ratio is 5/3 for the vertical axis and 3/2 for the horizontal one. Yes, the pixel count decreased by 2.5x but scaling factors are expressed in linear terms, not quadratic. Not to mention, ASPECT RATIO DISTORTION of 9/10 (-10%).
Scaling factors for resolution are over the number of pixels, 4k isn’t called that because it has 16 times more pixels.
Anyway, semantics. This comment discredits the reviewer in this sense.
What do you expect from a person who cannot install an OS (or at least does not consider it)?
Or scaling. Gnome supports scaling for high dpi displays out of the box. I suppose KDE too.
My experience with Gnome scaling has been rather poor. I haven’t tried it in KDE.
KDE’s fractional scaling is better than GNOME’s after Plasma 6 was released, in my experience. While GNOME still requires some technical expertise to enable fractional scaling, KDE Plasma 6 supports it out of the box.
Since this laptop uses Plasma 6 on Wayland, I’m not sure why this reviewer chose to reduce the screen resolution instead of adjusting the scaling when both settings are right next to each other.
KDE has been good with this, but I still feel like my mouse pointer gets huge or tiny in different apps and I think it’s just the fragmentation of the ecosystem and all these apps are high-dpi aware in their own way. Nothing we can blame KDE for.
I know fractional scaling is bad on Wayland but tbh I also know that many systems and gpus have issue with fractional scaling. I go with 200% and it works just fine on apple studio display.
Afaik this is the normal way of doing’s it on a Mac.
Out of the box, the laptop opted for the highest resolution possible, which made everything way too small for my aging eyes. Everything was perfect after a quick change to a 1920 x 1080 resolution.
… well that’s certainly one way of wasting smooth gradients. I’d suggest zooming icons and text instead :)
Great review.
Or using interface scaling overall, most DE’s have interface scaling or HDPI mode.
EDIT Including KDE Plasma which the journalist appeared to be using.
All laptops are linux laptops.
Well. Almost.
Pretty surprised at how well it works on laptops now, almost everything worked out of the box for me with the exception of some RGB lights but that’s just a matter of probing the EC
Had less problems post-install than Win10, couldn’t even install Win11 (I’m not making a microsoft account)
It’s been a year now and I’m never going to install windows on my machines again, thank god
And its ridiculously expensive
There’s a reason why. These Linux laptops have the expense of testing hardware for compatibility, while also being fairly niche since most consumers aren’t buying Linux laptops.
But still, paying 1.6k for a laptop with 2 SSDs (a rarity) is quite fair IMO.
Every laptop is expensive :O
This ist great, thank you!
