It's ironic, because Macs somewhat crappily upscale a lot of onscreen content & dont run at native resolution. I hope there's less jank better options but SwitchX Pro or whatever is what I use to coerce my macbook into running native res. People will drop what they are doing & walk over to me & exclaim: "you can read that?!?!". It's 2880x1800, not even that high density. But it's indeed tiny. I somewhat jokingly answer the trick is to already know whats on the screen.

So yes, more would be nice, in my book, but hardly required, and most of the evidence I see is of people unable to use anything better than 1080p.

Do you have any particular reason to be trashing on the trackpad or is this just more general pissery?

I'm specifically buying 1080 or 1440p to save battery. Also on 14" I can barely see any difference. I'd maybe go with 4k on 17".

> Manufacturers need to produce laptops with 4k display if they are willing to compete with Macs... And also a decent touch pad...

For a dev machine, manufacturers aren't competing with Macs.

I've got a macbook right here next to me:

No function keys No pageup/pagedown/home/end/insert[1] keys Poor and crappy support for my USB keyboard (which does have all those missing keys).

At least the macbook has an inverted T set of arrows keys, even if they are half-size.

[1] I use shift-insert all the time.

PopOS 22 bricked my touchpad (System76). Other people have posted about the same issue and no fix is here.

Minus the touchpad, great laptop. I just use an external mouse but I prefer a working touchpad.

I really don't care about 4k on a small screen.

Maybe not 4k, but 1080p is miserable.