Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models

• 2910000@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a 1920 x 1200 non-touch display option, which will surely get you better battery life than OLED. But what’s most interesting about it is the 1-120 Hz variable refresh rate, which Dell says is a first to for this model. That extremely low refresh should help save power when static images or text is on the screen.

  Ah yeah, I should have read the rest of the article. I didn’t know about that feature though, that’s cool

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• joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh boy, always on oled displays are so in now. 

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  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Feel the burn-in

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Probably not as bad as you might think:

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEgQrigiLc

      but yeah not sure how much worse it would be if always on…

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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There’s a lighter band at the top of the screen on my phone, corresponding to the darker header area in the RedReader app for Reddit. Just from using that app every day. Though that seems to be kinda reverse burn-in, in that the rest of the screen became darker since I use the light colorscheme.

        On the desktop, the taskbar alone would definitely burn in with my usage pattern. And probably also the tabs and the status bar in the editor.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s slower than a car blinker.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1 Hz is 1 fps. Hertz = cycles per second

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know what hertz is, I’m en electrotechnician. The display’s refresh rate is measured in hertz, and has to be at least 40 Hz or you suffer from headaches and some from photosensitive epilepsy. But the image (frames per second) does not have to change that often. For example, movies are 24fps but 35mm film projectors are 72 Hz: they flash each frame 3x before advancing because 24 Hz is seizure-inducing but using a unique picture for each refresh (72 fps) is expensive.

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      • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s some pretty confidently incorrect posting. Most gaming displays these days have some flavor of adaptive sync available that adjusts the refresh rate to the content being displayed, and even before that there were film modes that set the refresh rate to the ~24 fps(or a multiple if it) that film content is at to avoid stuttering/tearing.

        This is likely the bottom of the adaptive sync window and will only be used if the machine is idle

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      • eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You may be an electro technician but you obviously don’t know what you’re talking about so it’s pretty irrelevant to through around credentials.

        Here’s a video of an OLED TV updating in slow motion. The pixels are on in between updates so it really doesn’t matter how fast it’s updating it’s not going to cause headaches or any of the problems that we used to associate with strobing style displays. m.youtube.com/watch?v=54E3uUEryZM

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  • eightys3v3n@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, I meant what I said. The article says “hz” and so do other phone manufacturers offering the same feature. It may be marketing wank or technically incorrect but that’s what it’s referred to as.

    But, hz of a monitor is not like a car blinker or CRT televisions where it’s off in between the updates. It is on in between the updates, it’s just not the new image. In which case it doesn’t matter how slow your performing the updates because the pixels are just on with a static picture in between the updates.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      hz of a monitor is not like a car blinker or CRT televisions where it’s off in between the updates. It is on in between the updates

      Yes, it is on OLED, unless they’ve added active storage like TFT LCDs. In which case, that’s cool technology they’ve invented.

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