News - MSI launches the world's first 3K gaming notebook

[aceuk]

It doesn't sound like sarcasm to me since 4K TVs do look good.

[jim]

Sorry I can't tell, is that sarcasm?

No, serious.

[CampGareth]

Sorry I can't tell, is that sarcasm?

Gonna guess that it's not. Also would you seriously turn around and say "nope, that's enough progress lads, no one will ever need <X, over 4KB of RAM, LCDs, more than 1024x768 or 1920x1080 resolutions, more than 1 core, faster than dialup, etc. etc>"? The people who say things like that have been wrong time and time again, they've just needed to see the new tech first hand to see the point (i.e. too little imagination) and then they'd never want to use the old.

Having seen completely unscaled programs running on a mate's macbook and having a 2560x1440 main myself I can see that higher resolutions are helpful though when you have to scale and can't just fit more stuff on a screen it starts to be less helpful, it's just for smooth text, image editing, games, etc.

[edzieba]

As herulach mentioned above, no one is going to play uncompressed 4k videos on their home PCs whether it's Ultra HD 4k or DCI 4k.

Consumer 4k movies are going to be compressed with either H.264 or HEVC and they will play back fine on most PCs.

That's exactly my point. Consumer media = UHD. Digital cinema media = 4K (and 2K, and 8K). The only relation that have is they sometimes have close to the same Luma resolution.