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  • becausechemistry@lemm.eetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldOutstanding idea.
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    5 months ago

    clearing the launch tower during a test launch with an experimental rocket that has no payload and no humans aboard is success

    managing to get into the right orbit without aborting using a rocket that’s launched since the 60s and is lit with giant matchsticks is success

    You, an idiot: “these are comparable”


  • At work, my work PC laptop drives two 1080p monitors. I don’t keep it open to use the onboard one because Windows is so terrible at handling displays of different sizes, and the fans run so much when driving three displays that I think it could take off my desk. So I know what you’re talking about.

    But. Have you ever used a Mac with two displays? A current-gen MacBook Air will drive a 6K@60Hz and a 5K@60Hz display when closed, and it’ll do it silently. Or both displays at “only” 4K if you want to crank the refrsh rate to over 100Hz. You think that’s not enough for the least expensive laptop they sell?

    I’m really tired of people who don’t know what they’re capable of telling me why I shouldn’t enjoy using my computer.



  • limit it

    There isn’t some software limitation here. It’s more that they only put two display controllers in the base level M-series chips. The vast, vast majority of users will have at most two displays. Putting more display controllers would add (minimal, but real) cost and complexity that most people won’t benefit from at all.

    On the current gen base level chips, you can have one external display plus the onboard one, or close the laptop and have two externals. Seems like plenty to me for the cheapest option.