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by PascLeRasc 2276 days ago
I wish someone else besides Apple would discover the 16:10 ratio. I love my MBP but every company I've worked at has been allergic to OS X. Right now I'm stuck working from home on a 1366x768 screen because it's "business-class".
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The 2020 model of Dell XPS 13 has 16:10 @ 4K AFAIK. If you get the Developer Edition, it comes with Linux preinstalled.
4K on a 13.4" panel? https://www.sven.de/dpi/ says that comes out to a crazy 337 PPI. Current Macbook pro is 226.
I have one. It's pretty. But it provides no useful thing other than occasional touch screen use. But it has terrible battery life. 5 hours is good.

Supposedly the fhd (1080p approx) has much better battery life. I regret getting the 4k screen. For OP above, what's your battery life like? Mine is so bad I keep thinking something must be broken. I'm not doing compiling all day either, doing small things in bash, not killing the cpu, web pages.

That depends on use. For working on or reading papers, it's great: I've significantly cut down on the number of drafts and papers I print, as the screen's ppi is high enough that figures will appear at a similar resolution to what most researchers will have on their printers when adjusted to the correct size on the screen.
I used to own the XPS 9550 (15", 1080p non-touch) and the battery life was around 6-7 hours with the Nvidia GPU disabled. I bought it used so it might have been even better new too.
It should look fine in 3x mode although it's a waste of GPU.
Even Apple gave up on 16:10, for half of their computers. The iMac went 16:9 in 2009. The Cinema Display went 16:10 in 2010, and the recent XDR followed suit. The LG they sold in between was also 16:9. Only the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro remain 16:10.

I'm with you. I much prefer using my older non-Retina 16:10 displays than my newer 16:9 Retina display. Microscopic pixels are nice, but an extra 10% height is huge.

Microsoft Surface devices use 3:2 (15:10), I've bought one pretty much only because of that and it's nice.
Dell went 16:10 this year.