Acer working on laptops with 2880 x 1620 pixel resolution

[Hilbert Hagedoorn]

Acer revealed at CES that it will take on Apple's MacBook laptops with new laptops with ultra-high resolution screens. The company has several models in the works, including at least one Ultrabook, t...

Acer working on laptops with 2880 x 1620 pixel resolution

[scatman839]

Christ, and I thought 1080p on a 15" screen was bad, need to wear glasses to see it.

[Denial]

What's annoying is that most of these companies are putting out high resolution displays, which is nice, but they aren't properly calibrated so the colors are usually way over-saturated, they suffer from backlight bleed, consistency problems, etc. I'm kinda glad Apple pushed this on here though, 300+DPI should be the industry norm.

[Xendance]

Originally Posted by scatman839

Christ, and I thought 1080p on a 15" screen was bad, need to wear glasses to see it.

Pixels per inch setting is a magnificent thing.

[scatman839]

Then I lost screen space by everything being bigger.

Oh the conundrum.

Usually I just set the resolution to 720p/768p.

[Xendance]

Originally Posted by scatman839

Then I lost screen space by everything being bigger.

Oh the conundrum.

Usually I just set the resolution to 720p/768p.

So you don't like more sharper image? With higher PPI you could get aliasing free images in games too without using any form of AA.

[scatman839]

In a game I would put it at the highest, they usually scale text and stuff, this is just using windows and internet.

The screen is rarely used though, mostly it's my tv.

[volkov956]

so high res and probally backed by a low end Integrated GPU so whats the point.