by bhauer on 10/29/13, 1:49 AM
For the love of all that is good in the world,
please give us this kind of pixel density in large form-factor desktop displays already. I tweet at Dell periodically pleading this case, but it's always crickets.
Every time I see a high-DPI portable device, I long for my preferred consumption and creation context (desktop) to get some needed love from manufacturers.
(Yes, my wife has a Seiki 4K and I have several 30" 2560x1600 monitors, but I want better. The 30" form-factor is from 2004! These displays are the equivalent of a Motorola RAZR flip-phone.)
Edit: see my spur-of-the-moment review of the Seiki lower in this thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6631442
by Matsta on 10/29/13, 1:33 AM
What I still don't get is how the 30" Cinema Display was released in 2004, and almost 10 years later we still have pretty much the same same resolution screens.
I know 4k is slowly hitting the market, but you think about 10 years ago in the mobile world, we were using 84px monochrome screens on our Nokia 3315's.
And also why is the price difference between a laptop screen and a desktop screen so massive? You can buy a 4k screen complete with a whole computer for $1500, where a 4k desktop screen is going to cost you almost twice that.
by thex86 on 10/29/13, 1:49 AM
If only Lenovo would take notice and see what is happening in the market. I really want a better screen on my Thinkpad with a higher resolution.
by jervisfm on 10/29/13, 1:57 AM
Does anyone have any experience using hi-res screens with linux? If so, what are the issues, if any ? Is there a distro that has really good support for these kinds of displays?
I know the laptop comes with Win 8.1 which supposedly has decent hi-res screen support but if you wanted to wipe windows and put a Linux distro, which one would be best?
by storrgie on 10/29/13, 1:25 AM
Will there be a manufacture that will make: QHD+ (non touch), Intel everything (graphics, NIC), ultrabook body, I5-I7 with at-least 8GB of memory and hit the price point of 1000USD?
by nubela on 10/29/13, 1:26 AM
Oh just give me one in 13" (Project Sputnik!) and I'm IN!
by ChuckMcM on 10/29/13, 2:05 AM
I appreciate the DPI wars coming to laptops, next up is monitors. I'm friends with the owner of a local computer store chain and he says he sells 100 "low dpi" (aka 1080p) screens for every higher dpi screen. It doesn't make sense for him to stock them at those rates, and the cost difference is quite high because the 1080p screens are basically cheap TV glass rather than non-volume computer glass. (same issue with getting a 1920 x 1200 screen).
I've ordered a couple of the Asus 4K screens from him to try out but man $3500 (4K) vs $350 (1920 x 1200) vs $150 (1920 x 1080). That doesn't sound like a sustainable market to me.
by jhack on 10/29/13, 1:46 AM
Meanwhile, I still can't buy a 2560x1440 monitor at less than 27". Rediculous.
by rsanheim on 10/29/13, 1:27 AM
Yeah, but its a Dell laptop.
Do they still come covered in Windows stickers and with all sorts of bloatware installed?
by general_failure on 10/29/13, 1:37 AM
This looks like a good guy! Anyone know about linux support?
by pswenson on 10/29/13, 1:29 AM
ever try windows with hi-dpi? I did about a year ago, surprisingly flakey. has the situation improved?
by Pxtl on 10/29/13, 2:27 AM
I'm really excited to ser Dell pursue this new direction instead of lowest-common-denominator.
by curiousDog on 10/29/13, 1:37 AM
Hope they got the touchpad right. None of the win8 laptops/ultrabooks so far match macbooks.
by MetaCosm on 10/29/13, 3:07 AM
I really wish some of these high resolution laptops came with equivalent high end video cards to drive that resolution ... shipping with a 750m rather than the 780m seems nuts, it is 2 to 3 times slower and when you got 5.5+ million pixels to drive...
by detay on 10/29/13, 1:55 AM
Never an XPS, again. Ever. XPS is the short name of Dell misunderstanding gaming laptop.
by Gambit89 on 10/29/13, 6:54 AM
This is an otherwise good choice that I'd consider for my next laptop if it wasn't for no dedicated Home/End and Page Up/Down buttons.
by mixmastamyk on 10/29/13, 1:57 AM
Would be nice if this became their Linux dev box, and they had an external monitor to match.
by RachelF on 10/29/13, 1:28 AM
Nice. Finally some decent Windows notebook screens.
Being touch, I guess it is glossy and not matt?
by mischanix on 10/29/13, 1:44 AM
Dell XPS 15.6" QHD+ (Late 2013): 235 dpi
13" rMBP (Late 2012): 226 dpi
by rdl on 10/29/13, 1:51 AM
Why is the M6800 not more awesome? 17" 1080p, only.
by codex on 10/29/13, 1:31 AM
Yes but does it run OS X?