[teleforce]

Once I've got used to my 1440p Dell 27" monitor six years back, it basically ruined my tolerance for 1080p for working with text and browsing websites. Personally now even for smaller laptop screen I cannot stand 1080p anymore.

Recently there is a flurry of golden ratio 16" laptops by most of manufacturers, and I think this display size is the Goldilocks of laptop screen size. Hopefully they can get them lightweight around 1 kg. No need for built-in discrete GPU as you can always use external GPU or eGPU as popularized recently by Asus [1].

[1] ROG XG Mobile External Graphic Dock:

https://rog.asus.com/external-graphic-docks/2021-rog-xg-mobi...

[Darmody]

Similar thing happened to me with 1080p laptops. I've used some 720p laptops since then and oh god, it looks like something my grandma would use because her eyesight problems.

I've seen several 16" laptops lately. I'm actually looking to buy an Inspiron 16 for my niece. 3k screen with or without dedicated GPU.

[Macha]

1080p at 15" = 140 DPI

1440p at 27" = 100 DPI

I'd expect better text clarity on the 1080p laptop screen, whether you keep the same pixel size or adjust for similar physical size. The real tradeoff you're making is how much you can fit on screen.

[asadkn]

Technically correct. But practically the perceived PPI/DPI would matter more, with distance. Relevant: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/#the-myth-of-apple-patented-...

[teleforce]

Yes, thank you very much for the explanations!

It seems to my eyes that even with 10" devices with 1080p display, my six years old 27" display with 1440p is much better to work with than 1080p of the much smaller devices. I guess we need a more objective definition of Quality of Experience (QoE) for display quality to avoid being duped by the manufacturers.