Sverhchotkie screens: who and why they are needed

Every year more and more develops a clear trend of increasing pixel density of modern monitors. It seems that already can safely deduce an analogue of Moore's Law, not only for the CPU of transistors and pixel screen. Several major manufacturers are constantly trying to win the last championship, announcing all New and emerging technologies with no one clear abbreviations, which is impressive for the most part only geeks. But whether they are necessary or normal user can, 720p resolution on your phone and Full HD monitor or laptop computer is enough?

Every year in the mobile electronics field there is a new trend is pronounced. they used to be multi-core mobile processor, then - 3D wherever possible, but now it's super-high resolution. By itself, the competition is the driving force of progress, is known to anyone who is even slightly familiar with the concept of the economy. But the use of advanced technologies is not the key to a successful product. To all felt holistic need for this process to take place in all aspects of the respective spheres simultaneously. A good example of this - a state of affairs with the autonomy of modern smartphones. Yes, many have resigned themselves to the fact that every night you need to connect your gadget to the wall outlet, but the lack of innovation in the development of rechargeable batteries and an active increase in computing power stronger and stronger worsens process. Another thing, if the screens, batteries, processors, improved at the same pace.

Personal electronics in its hardware have long been ahead of the software, and it's really a problem.

But still go back to the original topic of this article. The problem of high-resolution screen is a step higher than the above examples. In fact, this is one of the causes of four-, eight-processors in modern wearable technology, which pulls the problem with autonomy. Therefore, a logical question arises: who and why? Who is the target audience, ready to sacrifice time, battery life and considerable sums of money for the sake of it, yet ghostly, advantages?

Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, which I was able to enjoy some time - a vivid example of the use of technology without a logical understanding of why they are needed and how to use them in everyday life. It is worth mentioning that this is the top-end ultrabook price of nearly $ 2000, which features the best in Today, hardware equipment, among which - the screen with a diagonal of 13.3 "and a resolution of 3200 × 1 800.

In order not to bore you with the long discourse on the usefulness of the notebook in the daily reality, I chose those categories where the use of such screens is justified, and compared the Yoga 2 Pro with one of the obvious competitors - MacBook Retina 13 ".

1. Web browsing

Apple's notebook saves a good system font smoothing, but in general one look at logos most sites on the screens of both devices will be enough for you to understand how things are going. Russian-language blogs, adapted for such permits, can be counted on the fingers; foreign situation is slightly better, but still far from ideal.

2. Working with graphics

This is probably the most obvious scenario is the use of such screens. And if on the MacBook, working with Photoshop, for example, do not feel discomfort, it is normal to work on Lenovo without a magnifying glass is practically impossible. Interface elements are incredibly small, get over them or discern anything in the tool bar is almost impossible. You can lower the resolution up to Full HD, but then have to deal with scaling problems in other applications, it is also not happy. Mount the clips on the screen 13 "energy-saving processor and integrated graphics card is unlikely someone will, from which we can infer: Lenovo in this category is not a strong player market.

3. View photos, videos, games

This is one of the few scenarios where you can appreciate the detail and visual quality of the display. Watch movies a pleasure, as, indeed, and enjoy the pictures. With the games - a question. Not every modern title to offer users a picture in such a high resolution. Although, in fairness, it should be noted that at 13 "or even 15" Full HD with the difference noted difficult.

4. Interface

Let's go back to the scaling issue. On Windows, even setting a maximum degree of increase in the settings will not work comfortably each, as all elements will be approximately half smaller than usual for many 1366 × 768. On a Mac, the only thing that will notice an untrained user - no ladders of pixels on the Finder or Safari icon.

Screens with 4K resolution so far ahead of time, as the need for only a small audience of professionals.

Retina-like display, we advertise as a standard-definition and image quality. In fact, due to the unsuitability of the software part we see the opposite effect: Instead of convenience and sverhchotkoy pictures get zamylennye fonts and images, non-adapted interfaces with many small elements. And what good is that Full HD video on a notebook screen looks fantastic, if the performance of the majority of daily tasks will cause you discomfort?

While mobile application developers have learned to react quickly to new market trends, calloused creators of desktop solutions, as well as the majority of websites still could not catch up with a new and progressive technology. And not all of it is financially advantageous, because the redraw interface also requires certain costs. That is why the question of whether to buy a mobile equipment with indicators such pixel density of the screen, the answer is: it is necessary, but only when it is adapted for the market. At least, if Windows is dearer to you.