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Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models (www.tomshardware.com)
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A new, thinner XPS 13 is also coming later this year.

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[–] 76 points 10 months ago (8 children)

1 Hz display option: like an e-Ink display?

(it says 120Hz in the article)

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  • [–] 64 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    They might mean down to 1hz like some smart phones do, to save battery.

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  • [–] 72 points 10 months ago

    There's a 1920 x 1200 non-touch display option, which will surely get you better battery life than OLED. But what's most interesting about it is the 1-120 Hz variable refresh rate, which Dell says is a first to for this model. That extremely low refresh should help save power when static images or text is on the screen.

    Ah yeah, I should have read the rest of the article. I didn't know about that feature though, that's cool

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Oh boy, always on oled displays are so in now. 

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Feel the burn-in

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Probably not as bad as you might think:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEgQrigiLc

    but yeah not sure how much worse it would be if always on...

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    There's a lighter band at the top of the screen on my phone, corresponding to the darker header area in the RedReader app for Reddit. Just from using that app every day. Though that seems to be kinda reverse burn-in, in that the rest of the screen became darker since I use the light colorscheme.

    On the desktop, the taskbar alone would definitely burn in with my usage patterns. And probably also the tabs and the status bar in the editor.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Might also depend on the model and if it does any sort of burn in protection processes such as pixel orbiting. My partner has been using a Samsung Odyssey G8 OLED for productivity about 4hrs a day for about the past 3 years and it doesn't have any noticeable burn in yet(lots of other really annoying software UI issues though, because Samsung... 😅)

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