On the one hand I think that United Nationas Human Rights Council should ban 768p TN monitors, but on the other hand I appreciate the fact that even quite poor families in Africa can hope to buy a laptop that actually can get them to internet from a wifi-hotspot in a internet cafeteria.
Higher resolutions are rather wasteful since you have to scale text larger anyway or people have trouble reading stuff on the screen. I've got a 14 inch laptop at work with a 1080p screen and its scaled to 125% or 150% depending on what I'm working on which just means those extra pixels are forcing the GPU to work a little harder and demanding a bit ore backlight energy to achieve roughly the same usable amount of productive screen real estate.
Maybe not talk like your own experience is universal for everyone else? I've had a 768p 14" display and it was annoyingly large and fit very little on the actual screen. Now I have a 13.3" 1440p and have set it to 125% and it is great. Much more useful and when watching movies and pictures much better as well. I don't think 768p needs to die, but the price is much too high for it.
This is the reason Acer became notorious instead of number 1 PC manufacturer. Why use those old 28nm parts?! Browsers can be CPU intensive especially with Google's web apps. This issue is way worse than 768p resolution on 15.6 displays.
I'm more curious about AMD's decision to LAUNCH any more A series CPUs in 2019, rather than focusing on bringing Zen to (even) lower tiers. Similarly curious as to HP, Acer, and others' decision to build anything around this 5 year old architecture. It's like watching HTC or Nokia/Microsoft in their last days still releasing new e-waste featuring (drum-roll) ...Snapdragon 2xx.
Probably old stock or chips they got nearly for free from their GloFo deals. I'll be looking forward to seeing some comparison with the Atoms inside nearly all other Chromebooks. This thing is still too expensive though for what it does.
I wonder how educational PC market is run in US, since my first thought was "why not let a supplier buy tons of used thinkpads, refurbish, test and resell them to schools", for instance, a used T430 can be sold for as low as $140 and still offers beefier performance.
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zepi - Sunday, January 6, 2019 - link
On the one hand I think that United Nationas Human Rights Council should ban 768p TN monitors, but on the other hand I appreciate the fact that even quite poor families in Africa can hope to buy a laptop that actually can get them to internet from a wifi-hotspot in a internet cafeteria.zepi - Sunday, January 6, 2019 - link
And not just Africa - we all have different priorities in life. Sometimes 280usd is more than we want to spend.Azix - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
poor people in africa? 280 USD is too much for a massive portion of the US population.Mobile-Dom - Sunday, January 6, 2019 - link
IIRC from the AMD slide these parts are 6w, but aside from that, 768p TN shouldn't be an option anymore, simple asPeachNCream - Sunday, January 6, 2019 - link
Higher resolutions are rather wasteful since you have to scale text larger anyway or people have trouble reading stuff on the screen. I've got a 14 inch laptop at work with a 1080p screen and its scaled to 125% or 150% depending on what I'm working on which just means those extra pixels are forcing the GPU to work a little harder and demanding a bit ore backlight energy to achieve roughly the same usable amount of productive screen real estate.Death666Angel - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Maybe not talk like your own experience is universal for everyone else? I've had a 768p 14" display and it was annoyingly large and fit very little on the actual screen. Now I have a 13.3" 1440p and have set it to 125% and it is great. Much more useful and when watching movies and pictures much better as well. I don't think 768p needs to die, but the price is much too high for it.hanselltc - Sunday, January 6, 2019 - link
I know these are cheaper than bricks, but my lord they look worse than bricks as well.zodiacfml - Sunday, January 6, 2019 - link
This is the reason Acer became notorious instead of number 1 PC manufacturer.Why use those old 28nm parts?! Browsers can be CPU intensive especially with Google's web apps. This issue is way worse than 768p resolution on 15.6 displays.
fmcjw - Sunday, January 6, 2019 - link
I'm more curious about AMD's decision to LAUNCH any more A series CPUs in 2019, rather than focusing on bringing Zen to (even) lower tiers. Similarly curious as to HP, Acer, and others' decision to build anything around this 5 year old architecture. It's like watching HTC or Nokia/Microsoft in their last days still releasing new e-waste featuring (drum-roll) ...Snapdragon 2xx.Death666Angel - Monday, January 7, 2019 - link
Probably old stock or chips they got nearly for free from their GloFo deals. I'll be looking forward to seeing some comparison with the Atoms inside nearly all other Chromebooks. This thing is still too expensive though for what it does.overseer - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - link
I wonder how educational PC market is run in US, since my first thought was "why not let a supplier buy tons of used thinkpads, refurbish, test and resell them to schools", for instance, a used T430 can be sold for as low as $140 and still offers beefier performance.