WHY YOU CAN'T GET A 1440P LAPTOP: BLAME 4K TVs
Jun 30, 2020
4 minutes
BY JARED NEWMAN
If you’ve tried to buy a nice Windows laptop in the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve agonized over display resolutions. Buy a laptop with a 4K display, and you’ll get a picture so sharp that individual pixels become indiscernible, but both battery life and performance will suffer as a result. Get a 1080p laptop instead, and you’ll get more battery life at the expense of that glorious picture.
There is, of course, a middle ground in the form of 1440p (2560x1440) displays, also known as QHD. You just wouldn’t know it from today’s selection of laptops. Even though 1440p hits the sweet spot between a crisp picture and long
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