Resolution?

[ZombieKiller567]

I have been doing some research and I am still slightly unclear on the advantages and disadvantages to the higher resolution laptops. I am a graphic designer and am in desperate need of a quality laptop for college but what is the difference in QHD to UHD is it worth upgrading to 4K or to stay at 3K resolution?

Thanks

[GDRRiley]

3k is overkill on a laptop but 4k is way over

[Oshino Shinobu]

On a laptop, anything above 1440p is completely pointless IMO. It's not even usable unless you have some serious scaling, which then defeats the purpose of having a high resolution display. It also drains more battery.

 

I find 4K at 28" is too much for everyday use. It just makes everything tiny. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

Higher resolution on a laptop means you'll have to scale it up to see things and it's more pixels to push so it has a non-trivial hit to battery life (but it's probably not that bad, maybe a half hour or so at worst).

 

But for your line of work, a higher resolution might be useful if you're working with higher resolution images and you'd like to see more things that at 1:1 if your editing program of choice scales natively in Windows.

[ZombieKiller567]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Higher resolution on a laptop means you'll have to scale it up to see things and it's more pixels to push so it has a non-trivial hit to battery life (but it's probably not that bad, maybe a half hour or so at worst).

 

But for your line of work, a higher resolution might be useful if you're working with higher resolution images and you'd like to see more things that at 1:1 if your editing program of choice scales natively in Windows.

So for the new Razer blade stealth the better option would be to go for the the 3k resolution instead of the 4k since the difference will be so minimal and not worth the extra cash to hand out especially for a 12.5 in screen.

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, ZombieKiller567 said:

So for the new Razer blade stealth the better option would be to go for the the 3k resolution instead of the 4k since the difference will be so minimal and not worth the extra cash to hand out especially for a 12.5 in screen.

Looking at their specs... Razer says the 4K display is 100% Adobe RGB while the 1440p display is 70%. If you're using this for graphics design work, I think the monitor with a higher color space would be more beneficial.

[ZombieKiller567]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

Looking at their specs... Razer says the 4K display is 100% Adobe RGB while the 1440p display is 70%. If you're using this for graphics design work, I think the monitor with a higher color space would be more beneficial.

Okay thanks, now only if the student discount was a little more.

[Pendragon]

23 minutes ago, ZombieKiller567 said:

So for the new Razer blade stealth the better option would be to go for the the 3k resolution instead of the 4k since the difference will be so minimal and not worth the extra cash to hand out especially for a 12.5 in screen.

Might as well get the XPS13 at that price point. Much better than the RBS.

[ZombieKiller567]

2 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

Might as well get the XPS13 at that price point. Much better than the RBS.

I am not sure because I still need the laptop for 3D modeling and rendering and could benefit from the additonal 8GB of Ram and the 7th gen i7 processor along with the higher resolution screen for the same price.

[Pendragon]

4 minutes ago, ZombieKiller567 said:

I am not sure because I still need the laptop for 3D modeling and rendering and could benefit from the additonal 8GB of Ram and the 7th gen i7 processor along with the higher resolution screen for the same price.

Then dear fucking god why are u getting a RBS. If you need 3d modeling and rendering you'll need to get quad cores and dGPUs for that.