Setting 4K laptop display to 1080p

[A-Furry-Peanut]

Does setting a 4k laptop display to 1080p help with battery life and when the 4k screen downscales to 1080p, how does the screen quality compare to a native 1080p screen? When I downscaled my 4k screen to 1080p it looked like things were slightly blurrier which seems to make sense considering that I went from 4k to 1080p but shouldn't 4k vs 1080p be indistinguishable to the human eye on laptop displays? Is this some placebo effect or perhaps a scaling issue?

[Turtle Rig]

12 minutes ago, A-Furry-Peanut said:

Does setting a 4k laptop display to 1080p help with battery life and when the 4k screen downscales to 1080p, how does the screen quality compare to a native 1080p screen? When I downscaled my 4k screen to 1080p it looked like things were slightly blurrier which seems to make sense considering that I went from 4k to 1080p but shouldn't 4k vs 1080p be indistinguishable to the human eye on laptop displays? Is this some placebo effect or perhaps a scaling issue?

4k resolution on a tiny laptop is a stupid things IMO.  You won't be able to read sh*T.  I had a 28" 4k and I had to stick my eyes couple inches or a feet away.  Not good for the eyes. Also 1080p on a 4k monitor will look ugly as the monitor is meant for 4k resolution as native resolution.

 

minimum size for 4k monitor and you not going blind is 34" imo.

[emosun]

15 minutes ago, A-Furry-Peanut said:

shouldn't 4k vs 1080p be indistinguishable to the human eye on laptop displays

unless you have bad eyes no , 4k is always quite apparent

the only time a 1080 display will look the same as a 4k display is when you are running lower quality content like a 720p movie , which would be the same on both displays

 

5 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

4k resolution on a tiny laptop is a stupid things IMO.  You won't be able to read sh*T.  I had a 28" 4k and I had to stick my eyes couple inches or a feet away.

you need to scale the image to adapt to a 4k display

if you are using tiny font and not scaling anything , then yeah I would imagine things might be hard to read.

but nobody runs a 4k display with tiny font and 100% scaling and then sits far away from it. 

[Turtle Rig]

5 minutes ago, emosun said:

unless you have bad eyes no , 4k is always quite apparent

the only time a 1080 display will look the same as a 4k display is when you are running lower quality content like a 720p movie , which would be the same on both displays

 

you need to scale the image to adapt to a 4k display

if you are using tiny font and not scaling anything , then yeah I would imagine things might be hard to read.

but nobody runs a 4k display with tiny font and 100% scaling and then sits far away from it. 

LOL, I do my friend emosun.  I used 100 percent DPI with my old 28" sammy 4k.  Anything bigger is nasty I need real estate.  I run my current monitor at 4k and its perfect no DPI scaling needed when your using a 40" 4k monitor.

[emosun]

1 minute ago, Turtle Rig said:

LOL, I do my friend emosun.  I used 100 percent DPI with my old 28" sammy 4k.  Anything bigger is nasty I need real estate.  I run my current monitor at 4k and its perfect no DPI scaling needed when your using a 40" 4k monitor.

ok then don't complain you can't read text then

[Turtle Rig]

4 minutes ago, emosun said:

ok then don't complain you can't read text then

I never complained my friend.  I just said my old 28" was nice at 4k but very tiny text I would have to zoom in my eyes.  Once you hit 34" to 40" there won't be a need for DPI scaling unless you must have everything large on your monitor and don't care about real estate.

[emosun]

5 hours ago, Turtle Rig said:

I would have to zoom in my eyes. 

wow sure wish i had zoomable eyes

[Turtle Rig]

12 minutes ago, emosun said:

wow sure wish i had zoomable eyes

G1 chief.... 

[emosun]

1 minute ago, Turtle Rig said:

G1 chief.... 

chieftess